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.0Authors demonstrate that the field of comic book production and circulation in various regional histories introduce new postcolonial vocabularies. These scripts e…

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Full title :Postcolonial comics : texts, events, identities / edited by Binita Mehta and Pia Mukherji.

Summary

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.0Authors 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-functions" in established social texts and political systems, and thus re-envision competing narratives of resistance, rights, and freedoms. 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 remains firmly situated within the US-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.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2015.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Routledge
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:2015.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (viii, 235 pages) : : illustrations

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781315817576, 1315817578
oclc:ocn958100310
LC Classification:PN6714
Dewey Decimal:741.59

pt. 1. Geographies of contact : Gibraltar / Malta / Asia-Pacific -- pt. 2. Francophone post-histories : Algeria / Congo / Gabon -- pt. 3. Postcolonial politics : India -- pt. 4. War, nationhood, and transnationalism : the Middle East.

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Comic books, strips, etc Comic books, strips, etc. -- History an… Criticism, interpretation, etc Graphic novels Graphic novels -- History and criticism Postcolonialism in literature Postcolonialisme dans la littérature Romans graphiques -- Histoire et critiq…