GRAPHIC NOVEL AMERICAN BORN CHINESE: HYBRID IDENTITY IN HYBRID TEXT

Abstract

Abstract

American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang (2006) was the first graphic novel to be nominated for the National Book Award and won the Michael L. Printz Award 2007 for the best graphic novel category. It was considered successfully representing the hybrid identity of Chinese American. This article briefly discusses the rise of the graphic novel as part of the prose genre in the world literature. American Born Chinese is reviewed as an example of graphic novels; the narrative composed of visual and verbal languages makes the graphic novel a hybrid text.

Keywords: American Born Chinese, graphic novel, hybrid identity, hybrid text