American Born Chinese

American Born Chinese

MainstreamNational Book AwardsMichael L. Printz AwardEisner AwardPublishers WeeklySan Francisco ChronicleAmazon.com Best Graphic Novel of the YearBooklist Top 10 Graphic NovelTime Top 10 of the Year

published in 2006

Three Narratives

Monkey King

Monkey King

Monkey King in American Born Chinese

Jin Wang

Danny

Switching Narratives&Ordering of Episodes in ABC.

Chin-Kee & literal moments of farce

Use of Comic Book Form

Three Narratives

Reasons For Incorporating ABCextending course material to contemporary

state of graphic novelsexample of provocative material in the

mainstreamextending our ideas of what is an “American”

narrative (and decentering whiteness)simple story, jarring confrontation with race