McKinney Mark McKinney

Postcolonialism and Migration in French Comics (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

"e;Artistssuch as Zeina Abirached, Baru and Boudjellal have been impressive in theirefforts to decolonize French comics and set the record straight on migration,by telling stories about migrants and postcolonial minority groups from theinside, as it were."e;, Mark McKinneyProfoundanalysis of French comics through a postcolonial lensPostcolonialism andmigration are major themes in contemporary French comics and have roots in theAlgerian War (1954-62), antiracist struggle, and mass migration to France. Thisvolume studies comics from the end of the formal dismantling of French colonial empirein 1962 up to the present. French cartoonists of ethnic-minority and immigrantheritage are a major focus, including Zeina Abirached (Lebanon), Yvan AlagbBenin), Baru (Italy), Enki Bilal (former Yugoslavia), Farid Boudjellal(Algeria and Armenia), Jos Jover (Spain), Larbi Mechkour (Algeria), and RolandMonpierre (Guadeloupe). The author analyzes comics representing a gamut ofperspectives on immigration and postcolonial ethnic minorities, ranging fromstaunch defense to violent rejection. Individual chapters are dedicated tospecific artists, artistic collectives, comics, or themes, including avant-gardism, undocumented migrants in comics, and racism in far-right comics. This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content).Listen to an interview with Mark McKinney at New Books Network: https://newbooksnetwork.com/postcolonialism-and-migration-in-french-comics

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Universitaire Pers Leuven
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Januar 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9789461663719
• Artikelnr.: 72343715

Autorenporträt

Mark McKinney is Professor of French at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, USA. He has written 'The Colonial Heritage of French Comics' (Liverpool University Press, 2011) and 'Redrawing French Empire in Comics' (2013). He coedited 'Post-Colonial Cultures in France' (Routledge, 1997) with Alec G. Hargreaves. He edited 'History and Politics in French-Language Comics and Graphic Novels' (University Press of Mississippi, 2008). He cofounded and coedited the journal 'European Comic Art' with Laurence Grove and Ann Miller.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments Note on translations and terminology 1. Introduction: three
postcolonial turning points in French comics 2. Postcolonialism and
migration in comics after "Cauchemar blanc" 3. Farid Boudjellal's realist
comics 4. The voyage in through Baru's pastiches 5. "Citadel culture" in
French comics 6. Comics from the far right through the 1990s 7. Comics from
the far right from the 2000s to the present 8. Avant-gardism, migration and
postcolonialism in Alagbé's comics 9. Across the affrontier with Abirached
10. Sans-papiers in comics 11. Coda: postcolonialism and beyond Works cited
Index