Postcolonial Comics -

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Editeur : Routledge

Langue : Anglais

Parution : 01/09/2020

Format : Moyen, de 350g à 1kg

Nombre de pages : 246

Expédition : 454

Dimensions : 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.3

ISBN : 0367668858

Résumé :

This volume examines new comic book cultures, graphic writing, and bande dessin?e texts as they relate to postcolonialism in contemporary Anglophone and Francophone settings. Chapters are framed within a larger enquiry that considers definitive aspects of the postcolonial condition in 21st century (con)texts. Authors demonstrate that the

Biographie:

Binita Mehta is Professor of French and Director of the International Studies Program at Manhattanville College, U.S. where she teaches a variety of courses in French language, literature, and film. She is the author of Widows, Pariahs, and 'Bayad?res': India as Spectacle (2002) and has published several articles and book chapters on French and Francophone literature and film, South Asian diasporic cinema, and on the Francophone bande dessin?e.

Pia Mukherji earned her doctorate in English Literature from the Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York, U.S. Her research and publications are in the areas of British modernism, new-media texts, and diasporic cultures. She has taught a variety of courses on modernism, postcolonial literatures, film studies, and writing in the New York and Boston areas.

Sommaire:

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'Alg?rie Ann Miller 5. Guilty Melancholia and Memorial Work: Representing the Congolese Past in Comics V?ronique Bragard 6. Visualizing Postcolonial Africa: La Vie de Pah? 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