Postcolonial Comics Texts, Events, Identities [Hardcover]

This collection examines new comic-book cultures, graphic writing, and bande dessin?etexts 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.

Introduction Binita Mehtaand Pia Mukherji  Part I: Geographies of Contact: Gibraltar / Malta / Asia-Pacific  1. Plural Pathways, Plural Identities: Jean-Philippe Stassens Les Visiteurs de Gibraltar Michelle Bumatay  2. Joe Saccos Prying Outsiders : Marginalization, Graphic Novel Form, and the Ethics of Postcolonial Representation Sam Knowles  3. Tezuka Osamus Postcolonial Discourse towards a Hybrid National Identity Roman Rosenbaum  Part II: Francophone Post-Histories: Algeria / Congo / Gabon  4. Memory and Postmemory in Morvandiaus DAlg?rie Ann Miller  5. Guilty Melancholia and Memorial Work: Representing the ColC0