Urban Comics: Infrastructure and the Global City in Contemporary Graphic Narratives

ISBN-13: 9781138483583 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 274 str.

Dominic Davies

Opis

This book provides readings of contemporary comics that depict, or that are produced by, artists and collectives resident in cities marked by histories of division and which continue to be shaped by ongoing forms of physical and cultural segregation.

O autorze

Dominic Davies is a Lecturer in English at City, University of London. In 2018 he finished a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Oxford, where he also completed his DPhil and established the TORCH Network, ‘Comics and Graphic Novels: The Politics of Form’. He is the author of Imperial Infrastructure and Spatial Resistance in Colonial Literature, 1880-1930 (2017), along with a number of articles and book chapters exploring the relationship between urban infrastructure, the built environment and artistic and literary cultures. He is the co-editor of Fighting Words: Fifteen Books that Shaped the Postcolonial World (2017) and Planned Violence: Post/Colonial Urban Infrastructure, Literature & Culture (2018). He is also the editor of a collection of essays and comics entitled Documenting Trauma in Comics: Traumatic Pasts, Embodied Histories & Graphic Reportage (2019).