| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations |
| Series |
Routledge research in postcolonial literatures ; 30 |
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Routledge research in postcolonial literatures ; 30.
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I: Geographies of Contact: Gibraltar / Malta / Asia-Pacific; 1 Plural Pathways, Plural Identities: Jean-Philippe Stassen's Les Visiteurs de Gibraltar; 2 Joe Sacco's ""Prying Outsiders"": Marginalization, Graphic Novel Form, and the Ethics of Postcolonial Representation; 3 Tezuka Osamu's Postcolonial Discourse towards a Hybrid National Identity; PART II: Francophone Post-Histories: Algeria / Congo / Gabon; 4 Memory and Postmemory in Morvandiau's D'Algérie |
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5 Guilty Melancholia and Memorial Work: Representing the Congolese Past in Comics6 Visualizing Postcolonial Africa: La Vie de Pahé; PART III: Postcolonial Politics: India; 7 Postcolonial Demo-graphics: Traumatic Realism in Vishwajyoti Ghosh's Delhi Calm; 8 Graphics of Freedom: Colonial Terrorists and Postcolonial Revolutionaries in Indian Comics; 9 Graphic Ecriture: Gender and Magic Iconography in Kari; PART IV: War, Nationhood, and Transnationalism: The Middle East; 10 Visualizing the Emerging Nation: Jewish and Arab Editorial Cartoons in Palestine, 1939-48 |
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11 Drawing for a New Public: Middle Eastern 9th Art and the Emergence of a Transnational Graphic Movement12 Men with Guns: War Narratives in New Lebanese Comics; Contributors; Index |
| 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.0This 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed April 29, 2015) |
| Subject |
Comic books, strips, etc. -- History and criticism
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Graphic novels -- History and criticism
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Postcolonialism in literature.
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ART -- Techniques -- Drawing.
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Comic books, strips, etc.
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Graphic novels
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Postcolonialism in literature
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Mehta, Binita, 1962- editor.
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Mukherji, Pia, 1966- editor.
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| ISBN |
9781317814108 |
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131781410X |
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9781317814092 |
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1317814096 |
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9781317814085 |
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1317814088 |
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