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 Taylor & Francis Group
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2015

The Physical Object

Description:viii, 235 pages : : illustrations ; : 24 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780415738132, 041573813X
oclc:ocn879568817
LC Classification:PN6714
Dewey Decimal:741.5/9

Part I: Geographies of Contact: Gibraltar / Malta / Asia-Pacific. Plural pathways, plural identities: Jean-Philippe Stassen's Les Visiteurs de Gibraltar / Michelle Bumatay ; Joe Sacco's "Prying Outsiders": marginalization, graphic novel form, and the ethics of postcolonial representation / Sam Knowles ; Tezuka Osamu's postcolonial discourse towards a hybrid national identity / Roman Rosenbaum -- Part II: Francophone post-histories: Algeria / Congo / Gabon. Memory and postmemory in Marvandiau's D'Algérie / Ann Miller ; Guilty melancholia and memorial work: representing the Congolese past in comics / Veronique Bragard ; Visualizing postcolonial Africa: La Vie de Pahé / Binita Mehta -- Part III: Postcolonial politics: India. Postcolonial demo-graphics: traumatic realism in Vishwajyoti Ghosh's Delhi Calm / Pramod K. Nayar ; Graphics of freedom: colonial terrorists and postcolonial revolutionaries in Indian comics / Harleen Singh ; Graphic ecriture: gender and magic iconography in Kari / Pia Mukherji -- Part IV: War, nationhood, and transnationalism: the Middle East. Visualizing the emerging nation: Jewish and Arab editorial cartoons in Palestine, 1939-48 / Jeffrey John Barnes ; Drawin…

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Comic books, strips, etc Comic books, strips, etc. -- History an… Criticism, interpretation, etc Graphic novels Graphic novels -- History and criticism literary criticism Postcolonialism in literature Postcolonialisme dans la littérature Postkolonialism i litteraturen Romans graphiques -- Histoire et critiq… Serieromaner -- historia Tecknade serier -- historia