Postcolonial Comics: Texts, Events, Identities

ISBN-13: 9780415738132 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 236 str.

Binita Mehta; Pia Mukherji

Opis

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.

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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’Algérie Ann Miller  5. Guilty Melancholia and Memorial Work: Representing the Congolese Past in Comics Véronique Bragard  6. Visualizing Postcolonial Africa: La Vie de Pahé 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