Comics in Contemporary Arab Culture: Politics, Language and Resistance

ISBN-13: 9780755649075 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 248 str.

Jacob Høigilt

Spis treści

1. Introduction Scope and themes The analysis of comics Structure of the book 2. Mapping the scene 3. Resistance against authoritarianism and war: adult comics before 2011 A tradition of political critique: War comics in Lebanon Critique of authoritarianism in Samandal magazine 4. Comics in revolutionary and post-revolutionary Egypt Drawing a revolution Revolutionary criticism and humour in Egyptian comics 5. Gender relations Gender relations: a core issue Slapstick humour and exaggerations Visual symbolism The rhetoric of the panels In favour of the sensitive man 6. Youthfulness and the vernacular The marginalization of youth in the Arab world Asserting youthfulness Individuality and alienation Youthfulness and the vernacular 7. Comics and sociolinguistics: informal literacy, voice and language ideology Inhabiting a third space Voice Diglossia and written Arabic Language Ideology and the illusion of zero-sum games Informal literacy and the ideology of diglossia 8 Conclusion: Ideology, resistance and voice Bibliography