Postcolonial Comics: Texts, Events, Identities (Routledge Research In Postcolonial Literatures)

This collection examines new comic-book cultures, graphic writing, and bande dessinée texts as they relate to postcolonialism in contemporary Anglophone and Francophone settings. The individual chapters are framed within a larger enquiry that considers definitive aspects of the postcolonial condition in twenty-first-century (con)texts. The authors demonstrate that the fields of comic-book production and circulation in various regional histories introduce new postcolonial vocabularies, reconstitute conventional "image-functions" in established social texts and political systems, and present competing narratives of resistance and rights. In this sense, postcolonial comic cultures are of particular significance in the context of a newly global and politically recomposed landscape. This volume introduces a timely intervention within current comic-book-area studies that remain firmly situated within the "U.S.-European and Japanese manga paradigms" and their reading publics. It will be of great interest to a wide variety of disciplines including postcolonial studies, comics-area studies, cultural studies, and gender studies.

• | Author: Binita Mehta, Pia Mukherji
• | Publisher: Routledge
• | Publication Date: May 20, 2015
• | Number of Pages: 236 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 041573813X
• | ISBN-13: 9780415738132