ABSTRACT
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.
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|47 pages
Geographies of Contact Gibraltar/Malta/Asia-Pacific
chapter 1|15 pages
Plural Pathways, Plural Identities
chapter 2|15 pages
Joe Sacco's “Prying Outsiders”
part II|53 pages
Francophone Post-Histories Algeria/Congo/Gabon
part III|40 pages
Postcolonial Politics
chapter 8|15 pages
Graphics of Freedom
part IV|54 pages
War, Nationhood, and Transnationalism