History and Politics in French-Language Comics and Graphic Novels

Perspectives on French-language comics and graphic novels INCLUDES Baru, "The Working Class and Comics: A French Cartoonist's Perspective" Bart Beaty, "The Concept of 'Patrimoine' in Contemporary Franco-Belgian Comics Production" Cécile Vernier Danehy, "Textual Absence, Textual Color: A Journey Through Memory-Cosey's Saigon-Hanoi" Hugo Frey, "Trapped in the Past: Anti-Semitism in Hergé's Flight 714" Pascal Lefèvre, "The Congo Drawn in Belgium" Fabrice Leroy, "Games Without Frontiers: The Representation of Politics and the Politics of Representation in Schuiten and Peeters's La frontière invisible" Amanda Macdonald, "Distractions from History: Redrawing Ethnic Trajectories in New Caledonia" Mark McKinney, "The Algerian War in Road to America (Baru, Thévenet, and Ledran)" Ann Miller, "Citizenship and City Spaces: Bande dessinée as Reportage" Clare Tufts, "Re-imaging Heroes / Rewriting History: The Pictures and Texts in Children's Newspapers in France, 1939-45" Mark McKinney is associate professor of French at Miami University, Ohio. With Alec G. Hargreaves, he edited Post-Colonial Cultures in France.

EAN: 9781617030475