Postcolonial Comics: Texts, Events, Identities Contributor(s): Mehta, Binita (Editor), Mukherji, Pia (Editor) |
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ISBN: 041573813X ISBN-13: 9780415738132 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $180.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: May 2015 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Comics & Graphic Novels - Literary Criticism | Subjects & Themes - Women |
Dewey: 741.59 |
LCCN: 2014045621 |
Series: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures |
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" (1.05 lbs) 236 pages |
Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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. |