Postcolonialism and Migration in French Comics

Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-94-6270-241-7
Verlag: Leuven University Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 8, 400 Seiten, Format (B × H): 229 mm x 169 mm, Gewicht: 940 g

Reihe: Studies in European Comics and Graphic Novels

"Artists
such as Zeina Abirached, Baru and Boudjellal have been impressive in their
efforts to decolonize French comics and set the record straight on migration,
by telling stories about migrants and postcolonial minority groups from the
inside, as it were.", Mark McKinney

Profound
analysis of French comics through a postcolonial lens

Postcolonialism and
migration are major themes in contemporary French comics and have roots in the
Algerian War (1954–62), antiracist struggle, and mass migration to France. This
volume studies comics from the end of the formal dismantling of French colonial empire
in 1962 up to the present. French cartoonists of ethnic-minority and immigrant
heritage are a major focus, including Zeina Abirached (Lebanon), Yvan Alagbé
(Benin), Baru (Italy), Enki Bilal (former Yugoslavia), Farid Boudjellal
(Algeria and Armenia), José Jover (Spain), Larbi Mechkour (Algeria), and Roland
Monpierre (Guadeloupe). The author analyzes comics representing a gamut of
perspectives on immigration and postcolonial ethnic minorities, ranging from
staunch defense to violent rejection. Individual chapters are dedicated to
specific 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

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mckinney, Mark

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Romanische Literaturen Französische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Postkoloniale Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Design Comics & Cartoons (Design)
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziale Ungleichheit, Armut, Rassismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

AcknowledgmentsNote 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

Über Autor(innen)

Mckinney, Mark
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.