Postcolonial Comics: Texts, Events, Identities (Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures)
Routledge
ISBN13:
9780367668853
$65.45
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.
- | Author: Binita Mehta, Pia Mukherji
- | Publisher: Routledge
- | Publication Date: Sep 30, 2020
- | Number of Pages: 236 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 0367668858
- | ISBN-13: 9780367668853
- Author:
- Binita Mehta, Pia Mukherji
- Publisher:
- Routledge
- Publication Date:
- Sep 30, 2020
- Number of pages:
- 236 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 0367668858
- ISBN-13:
- 9780367668853