Graphic Novels and Comics as World Literature (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Hodapp, James

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Graphic narratives are one of the world's great art forms, but graphic novels and comics from Europe and the United States dominate scholarly conversations about them. Building upon the little extant scholarship on graphic narratives from the Global South, this collection moves beyond a narrow Western approach to this quickly expanding field. By focusing on texts from the Middle East, Africa, Latin America, and Asia, these essays expand the study of graphic narratives to a global scale.

Graphic Novels and Comics as World Literature is also interested in how these texts engage with, fit in with, or complicate notions of World Literature. The larger theoretical framework of World Literature is joined with the postcolonial, decolonial, Global South, and similar approaches that argue explicitly or implicitly for the viability of non-Western graphic narratives on their own terms. Ultimately, this collection explores the ways that the unique formal qualities of graphic narratives from the Global South intersect with issues facing the study of international literatures, such as translation, commodification, circulation, Orientalism, and many others.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. April 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781501373435
• Artikelnr.: 63634411

Autorenporträt

James Hodapp is Assistant Professor of English at Northwestern University in Qatar, and editor of Afropolitan Literature as World Literature (Bloomsbury, 2020).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures Introduction: Global South Comics on Their Own Terms James Hodapp
Northwestern University
Qatar 1. Pages of Exception: Graphic Reportage as World Literature Dominic Davies
City University London
UK 2. Latin America's Tinta Femenina and Its Place in Graphic "World Literature" Jasmin Wrobel
Freie Universität Berlin
Germany 3. An Alternative Worldliness: Verbal and Visual Experimentations in Fi shiqqat bab el-loq (The Apartment in Bab El-Louk) Dima Nasser
Brown University
USA 4. Boys Love in Latin America: The Migration of Aesthetics in Contemporary Graphic Narrative Camila Gutiérrez
Pennsylvania State University
USA 5. A Sociological Approach to Francophone African Comics (1978-2016) Sandra Federici 6. Born in the "World": Leila Abdelrazaq's Writing and Art as World Literature Allison Blecker
Harvard University
USA 7. Utopias Gone Wrong: Representing the Dystopic Urban in the Indian Graphic Narrative Debadrita Chakraborty
Cardiff University
UK 8. Opening Up a World and the Temporal-Normative Dimension: Keum Suk Gendry-Kim's Grass as World Literature Jin Lee
Myongji University
South Korea 9. Between the Saltwater and the Desert: Indigenous Australian Tales from the Margins Catherine Sly
Independent Scholar
Australia 10. A Case Study of Sita's Ramayana
Diasporic Negotiations
COVID-19
and the Television Serial Ramayana Shilpa Daithota Bhat
Ahmedabad University
India 11. Wakanda as a Sustainable Smart Society: Africanfuturism in Marvel's Black Panther Jana Fedtke 12. Neoliberal Ideologies in Menggapai Bintang (Reach for the Stars) Mohd Muzhafar Idrus
Habibah Ismail and Hazlina Abdullah
Universiti Sains Islam
Malaysia 13. "LONG LIVE the Waste!": Junk Food Bites Back in Jung's Approved for Adoption Sheng-mei Ma
Michigan State University
USA Notes on Contributors Index