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The paper frames the textual gutter as a cross-textual technique spanning two volumes, emphasizing physical and metaphysical in-between space that amplifies liminality and transnational themes. 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Available at: [https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/sane/vol2/iss7/1](https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/sane/vol2/iss7/1)  \nThis Article is brought to you for free and open access by DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska-Lincoln. It has been accepted for inclusion in SANE journal: Sequential Art Narrative in Education by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska-Lincoln.  \nThe Textual Gutter: How Gene Luen Yang Redefines the Gutter in Boxers & Saints to Tell a Transnational Tale  \nCover Page Footnote  \nAcknowledgments: Dr. Laura Beadling  \nThis article is available in SANE journal: Sequential Art Narrative in Education: [https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/sane/](https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/sane/)[ ](https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/sane/)vol2/iss7/1  \nThe Textual Gutter: How Gene Luen Yang Redefines the Gutter in Boxers & Saints to Tell  \na Transnational Tale  \nGene Luen Yang’s career is marked by tales of transnationalism and how they shape identity. His stories epitomize what it means to live in a global community where cultural lines blur, and identity becomes the axis on which his stories so often turn. As an Asian-American  \ncartoonist and writer whose parents are from China and Taiwan, most of Yang’s narratives  \nfollow characters whose transnational identity is experienced through the juxtaposition of  \nparables that highlight the nuanced differences and similarities between eastern and western  \nculture. This conflict of identity, in its many forms, is the central theme in most of Yang’s  \nwritings, like his graphic novels American Born Chinese and Shadow Hero, both an exploration of being Chinese and American. Yang’s characters often grapple with their otherness, not feeling  \nat home in either of the juxtaposed cultural experiences. Unsurprisingly, in The “Asian  \nInvasion”: An Interview With Gene Luen Yang, Yang states that the medium of comics is a home for multiculturalism because of its perception as an “outsider” medium, and comics attract those  \nwho feel voiceless. (125) Yang continues exploring otherness and identity with his 2013 epic,  \nBoxers & Saints by evoking the liminality of a new kind of stylistic gutter,(the space between  \npanels on a page)—the textual gutter.  \nYang’s historical fiction redefines how we look at the gutter by separating Boxers & Saints into two volumes, creating the textual gutter a cross-textual technique of using multiple volumes of graphic narrative to amplify the liminal (the internally disruptive and transformative) elements of a story. The textual gutter, as this paper defines it, represents a new kind of gutter that is both the physical, and metaphysical space between two or more physical books that evoke and amplifies the power of liminality, or liminal space,“the in-between moments…It is often a  \n1  \nPublished","cbCaiixUOQlqQAIq","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiixUOQlqQAIq","pdf",1378706,23,"English","# The Textual Gutter: How Gene Luen Yang Redefines the Gutter in Boxers & Saints to Tell a Transnational Tale\n## Gene Luen Yang’s transnational identity and otherness\n## Defining the textual gutter and cross-textual technique\n## Narrative and stylistic effects in Boxers & Saints","[{\"question\":\"What does the article mean by the “textual gutter” in Boxers \\u0026 Saints?\",\"answer\":\"It defines the textual gutter as a cross-textual space created by splitting Boxers \\u0026 Saints into two volumes, representing both physical and metaphysical in-between moments that amplify liminality.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the paper connect Gene Luen Yang’s background to the themes of the article?\",\"answer\":\"It describes Yang’s transnational storytelling as central to his career, focusing on how characters experience identity through contrasts between eastern and western cultures and grapple with otherness.\"},{\"question\":\"Why does the paper argue that readers must be proactive when reading Boxers \\u0026 Saints?\",\"answer\":\"Because the textual gutter guides readers to move backward and forward through the narrative chronology, inhabiting liminal space and generating individual meaning across volumes and cultures.\"}]","SANE journal: Sequential Art Narrative in Education - Volume 2 - Issue 7 - Article 1 | PDF",1792037474,35]