I. The South in the national imagination. Li'l Abner, Snuffy, and friends : the Appalachian South in the American comic strip / M. Thomas Inge
Bumbazine, blackness, and the myth of the redemptive South in Walt Kelly's Pogo / Brian Cremins
Southern super-patriots and United States nationalism : race, region, and nation in Captain America / Brannon Costello
"The southern thing" : Doug Marlette, identity consciousness, and the commodification of the South / Christopher Whitby
II. Emancipation and civil rights resistance. Drawing the unspeakable : Kyle Baker's slave narrative / Conseula Francis
"Black and white and read all over" : representing race in Mat Johnson and Warren Pleece's Incognegro, a graphic mystery / Tim Caron
Everybody's graphic protest novel : Stuck rubber baby and the anxieties of racial difference / Gary Richards
III. The horrors of the South. Of slaves and other swamp things : black southern history as comic book horror / Qiana J. Whitted
Crooked Appalachia : the laughter of the Melungeon witches in Mike Mignola's Hellboy: The crooked man / Joseph Michael Sommers
Meat fiction and burning western light : the South in Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon's Preacher / Nicolas Labarre
IV. Revisualizing stories, rereading images. A visitation of narratives : dialogue and comics in Randall Kenan's A visitation of spirits / Alison Mandaville
A re-vision of the record : the demands of reading Josh Neufeld's A.D.: New Orleans after the deluge / Anthony Dyer Hoefer.