Postcolonial Comics: Texts, Events, Identities

Binita Mehta (Curatore)

Pia Mukherji (Curatore)

Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2020

This collection examines new comic-book cultures, graphic writing, and bande dessinee 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.

• Curatore: Binita Mehta, Pia Mukherji
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Collana: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures
• Anno: 2020
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 236 p.
• Dimensioni: 229 x 152 mm
• Peso: 680 gr.
• EAN: 9780367668853

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