History and Politics in French-Language Comics and Graphic Novels

Contents

Contents xi Editor’s Acknowledgments xiii French-Language Comics Terminology and Referencing 3 cHaPter one Representations of History and Politics in French-Language Comics and Graphic Novels: An Introduction —Mark McKinney Part One History, Politics, and the Bande dessinée Tradition 27 cHaPter two Trapped in the Past: Anti-Semitism in Hergé’s Flight 714 —Hugo Frey 44 cHaPter tHree Re-imaging Heroes / Rewriting History: The Pictures and Texts in Children’s Newspapers in France, 1939–45 —Clare Tufts 69 cHaPter foUr The Concept of “Patrimoine” in Contemporary Franco-Belgian Comics Production —Bart Beaty viii Contents Part Two Political Reportage and Globalism in Bandes dessinées 97 cHaPter five Citizenship and City Spaces: Bande dessinée as Reportage —Ann Miller 117 cHaPter six Games Without Frontiers: The Representation of Politics and the Politics of Representation in Schuiten and Peeters’s La frontière invisible —Fabrice Leroy Part Three Facing Colonialism and Imperialism in Bandes dessinées 139 cHaPter seven The Algerian War in Road to America (Baru, Thévenet, and Ledran) —Mark McKinney 166 cHaPter eigHt The Congo Drawn in Belgium —Pascal Lefèvre 186 cHaPter nine Distractions from History: Redrawing Ethnic Trajectories in New Caledonia —Amanda Macdonald 212 cHaPter ten Textual Absence, Textual Color: A Journey Through Memory— Cosey’s Saigon-Hanoi —Cécile Vernier Danehy ix Contents Part Four A French Cartoonist’s Perspective on the Working Class and Bandes dessinées 239 cHaPter eLeven The Working Class and Comics: A French Cartoonist’s Perspective —Baru 259 Bibliography 277 Contributors 281 Index This page intentionally left blank ...