Postcolonial Comics: Texts, Events, Identities
This collection examines new comic book cultures, graphic writing, and bande dessinée 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. Authors demonstrate that the field of comic book production and circulation in various regional histories introduce new postcolonial vocabularies. These scripts …
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- Full title :Postcolonial Comics : Texts, Events, Identities
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This collection examines new comic book cultures, graphic writing, and bande dessinée 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. Authors demonstrate that the field of comic book production and circulation in various regional histories introduce new postcolonial vocabularies. These scripts employ visual grammars, image-texts, and iconic performances that reconstitute conventional ""image-f
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- Publication Date:2015
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Taylor and Francis
- Place of Publication:Hoboken
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2015
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- Description:Online-Ressource (246 Seiten)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780415738132, 041573813X
- oclc:on1020552377
- LC Classification:PN6714 .P676 2015
- Dewey Decimal:741.5/9
Table of Contents
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I: Geographies of Contact: Gibraltar / Malta / Asia-Pacific; 1 Plural Pathways, Plural Identities: Jean-Philippe Stassen's Les Visiteurs de Gibraltar; 2 Joe Sacco's ""Prying Outsiders"": Marginalization, Graphic Novel Form, and the Ethics of Postcolonial Representation; 3 Tezuka Osamu's Postcolonial Discourse towards a Hybrid National Identity; PART II: Francophone Post-Histories: Algeria / Congo / Gabon; 4 Memory and Postmemory in Morvandiau's D'Algérie.
5 Guilty Melancholia and Memorial Work: Representing the Congolese Past in Comics6 Visualizing Postcolonial Africa: La Vie de Pahé; PART III: Postcolonial Politics: India; 7 Postcolonial Demo-graphics: Traumatic Realism in Vishwajyoti Ghosh's Delhi Calm; 8 Graphics of Freedom: Colonial Terrorists and Postcolonial Revolutionaries in Indian Comics; 9 Graphic Ecriture: Gender and Magic Iconography in Kari; PART IV: War, Nationhood, and Transnationalism: The Middle East; 10 Visualizing the Emerging Nation: Jewish and Arab Editorial Cartoons in Palestine, 1939-48.
11 Drawing for a New Public: Middle Eastern 9th Art and the Emergence of a Tra…
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