Postcolonial comics : texts, events, identities
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Postcolonial comics : texts, events, identities
（Routledge research in postcolonial literatures）
Routledge, 2020
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
This collection examines new comic-book cultures, graphic writing, and bande dessinee texts as they relate to postcolonialism in contemporary Anglophone and Francophone settings. The individual chapters are framed within a larger enquiry that considers definitive aspects of the postcolonial condition in twenty-first-century (con)texts.
The authors demonstrate that the fields of comic-book production and circulation in various regional histories introduce new postcolonial vocabularies, reconstitute conventional "image-functions" in established social texts and political systems, and present competing narratives of resistance and rights. In this sense, postcolonial comic cultures are of particular significance in the context of a newly global and politically recomposed landscape.
This volume introduces a timely intervention within current comic-book-area studies that remain firmly situated within the "U.S.-European and Japanese manga paradigms" and their reading publics. It will be of great interest to a wide variety of disciplines including postcolonial studies, comics-area studies, cultural studies, and gender studies.
Table of Contents
Introduction Binita Mehta and Pia Mukherji Part I: Geographies of Contact: Gibraltar / Malta / Asia-Pacific 1. Plural Pathways, Plural Identities: Jean-Philippe Stassen's Les Visiteurs de Gibraltar Michelle Bumatay 2. Joe Sacco's "Prying Outsiders": Marginalization, Graphic Novel Form, and the Ethics of Postcolonial Representation Sam Knowles 3. Tezuka Osamu's Postcolonial Discourse towards a Hybrid National Identity Roman Rosenbaum Part II: Francophone Post-Histories: Algeria / Congo / Gabon 4. Memory and Postmemory in Morvandiau's D'Algerie Ann Miller 5. Guilty Melancholia and Memorial Work: Representing the Congolese Past in Comics Veronique Bragard 6. Visualizing Postcolonial Africa: La Vie de Pahe Binita Mehta Part III: Postcolonial Politics: India 7. Postcolonial Demo-graphics: Traumatic Realism in Vishwajyoti Ghosh's Delhi Calm Pramod K. Nayar 8. Graphics of Freedom: Colonial Terrorists and Postcolonial Revolutionaries in Indian Comics Harleen Singh 9. Graphic Ecriture: Gender and Magic Iconography in Kari Pia Mukherji Part IV: War, Nationhood, and Transnationalism: The Middle East 10. Visualizing the Emerging Nation: Jewish and Arab Editorial Cartoons in Palestine, 1939-48 Jeffrey John Barnes 11. Drawing for a New Public: Middle Eastern 9th Art and the Emergence of a Transnational Graphic Movement Massimo di Ricco 12. Men with Guns: War Narratives in New Lebanese Comics Lena Merhej
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