http://sequart.org advancing comics as art Sun, 19 Apr 2026 18:44:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://sequart.org/magazine/4175/part-two-fresh-off-the-boat-stories-of-the-americanization-process-in-anya%e2%80%99s-ghost-and-american-born-chinese/ http://sequart.org/magazine/4175/part-two-fresh-off-the-boat-stories-of-the-americanization-process-in-anya%e2%80%99s-ghost-and-american-born-chinese/#comments Thu, 01 Sep 2011 11:00:02 +0000 Forrest Helvie http://sequart.org/?p=4175 While Anya’s Ghost subtly weaves the theme of the “FOB” and the struggle with Americanization into its story of coming of age and the supernatural, Gene Luen Yang’s award-winning American Born Chinese takes direct aim… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/4168/part-one-fresh-off-the-boat-the-americanization-process-in-anya%e2%80%99s-ghost-and-american-born-chinese/ http://sequart.org/magazine/4168/part-one-fresh-off-the-boat-the-americanization-process-in-anya%e2%80%99s-ghost-and-american-born-chinese/#comments Thu, 25 Aug 2011 11:00:39 +0000 Forrest Helvie http://sequart.org/?p=4168 One concept that often shows up in multiethnic literature is the “FOB”— Fresh Off the Boat—immigrant. This concept shows up either directly or indirectly in a variety of multiethnic sources and appears to be an… [more]]]> 0