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Postcolonialism and Migration in French Comics
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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.
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Table of Contents
Cover
Half-Title Page, Title Page, Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgments
Note on translations and terminology
1. Introduction: three postcolonial turning points in French comics
2. Postcolonialism and migration in comics after âCauchemar blancâ
3. Farid Boudjellalâs realist comics
4. The voyage in through Baruâs pastiches
5. "Citadel cultureâ 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 Alagbéâs comics
9. Across the affrontier with Abirached
10. Sans-papiers in comics
11. Coda: postcolonialism and beyond
Works cited
Index
| ISBN | 9789461663719 |
|---|---|
| Related ISBN(s) | 9789461667335, 9789462702417 |
| MARC Record | Download |
| OCLC | 1229075473 |
| Pages | 380 |
| Launched on MUSE | 2021-01-19 |
| Language | English |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Creative Commons | CC-BY-NC-ND |
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