| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 300 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
French-language comics terminology and referencing -- Representation of history and politics in French-language comics and graphic novels: an introduction / Mark McKinney -- pt. 1. History, politics, and the Bande dessinée tradition. Trapped in the past: anti-semitism in Hergé's Flight 714 / Hugo Frey -- Re-imaging heroes/rewriting history: the pictures and texts in children's newspapers in France, 1939-45 / Clare Tufts -- The concept of "patrimoine" in contemporary Franco-Belgian comics production / Bart Beaty -- pt. 2. Political reportage and globalism in Bandes dessinées. Citizenship and city spaces: Bande dessinée as reportage / Ann Miller -- Games without frontiers: the representation of politics and the politics of representation in Schuiten and Peeters's La frontière invisible / Fabrice Leroy -- pt. 3. Facing colonialism and imperialism in Bandes dessinées. The Algerian War in Road to America (Baru, Thévenet, and Ledran) / Mark McKinney -- The Congo drawn in Belgium / Pascal Lefèvre -- Distractions from history: redrawing ethnic trajectories in New Caledonia / Amanda Macdonald -- Textual absence, textual color: a journey through memory -- Cosey's Saigon-Hanoi / Cécile Vernier Danehy -- pt. 4. A French cartoonist's perspective on the working class and Bandes dessinées. The working class and comics: a French cartoonist's perspective / Baru |
| Summary |
In Belgium, France, Switzerland, and other French-speaking countries, many well-known comics artists have focused their attention on historical and political events. In works ranging from comic books and graphic novels to newspaper strips, cartoonists have addressed such controversial topics as French and Belgian collaboration and resistance during World War II, European colonialism and U.S. imperialism, anti-Semitism in France, the integration of African immigrant groups in Europe, and the green and feminist movements. History and Politics in French-Language Comics and Graphic Novels collects new essays that address comics from a variety of viewpoints, including a piece from practicing artist Baru. The explorations range from discussion of such canonical works as Herg's Tintin series to such contemporary expressions as Baru's Road to America (2002), about the Algerian War. Included are close readings of specific comics series and graphic novels, such as Cécile Vernier Danehy's examination of Cosey's Saigon Hanoi, about remembering the Vietnam War. Other writers use theoretical lenses as a means of critiquing a broad range of comics, such as Bart Beaty's Bourdieu-inspired reading of today's comics field, and Amanda Macdonald's analysis of bandes dessinées (French comic books) in New Caledonia during the 1990s. The anthology establishes the French-language comics tradition as one rich with representations of history and politics and is one of the first English-language collections to explore the subject |
| Notes |
Papers from a conference, "History and Politics in French-Language Comics," held at Miami University (Ohio) on November 11-13, 2004 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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History in comics -- Congresses
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Politics in comics -- Congresses
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Comic books, strips, etc. -- Europe, French-speaking -- History and criticism -- Congresses
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Comic books, strips, etc. -- Europe, French-speaking -- Themes, motives -- Congresses
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History in literature -- Congresses
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Politics in literature -- Congresses
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History in art -- Congresses
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Politics in art -- Congresses
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HUMOR -- General.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Comics & Graphic Novels.
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Politics in comics
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History in comics
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Comic books, strips, etc.
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Comic books, strips, etc. -- Themes, motives
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Comic
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Geschichte Motiv
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Politik Motiv
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French-speaking Europe
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Frankreich
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Französisch.
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proceedings (reports)
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Comics criticism
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Conference papers and proceedings
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Comics criticism.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Critiques de bandes dessinées et de romans graphiques.
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Actes de congrès.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
McKinney, Mark, 1961- editor.
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| LC no. |
2007045711 |
| ISBN |
9781441678782 |
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1441678786 |
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9781604737615 |
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1604737611 |
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1604730048 |
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9781604730043 |
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9781604734454 |
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1604734450 |
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