Bibliograph

Type

Label

History and politics in French language comics and graphic novels, edited by Mark McKinney

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

History and politics in French language comics and graphic novels

Nature of contents

dictionariesbibliography

Oclc number

671655975

Responsibility statement

edited by Mark McKinney

Summary

With Essays by Baru, Bart Beaty, Ccile Vernier Danehy, Hugo Frey, Pascal Lefvre, Fabrice Leroy, Amanda Macdonald, Mark McKinney, Ann Miller, and Clare Tufts In Belgium, France, Switzerland, and other French-speaking countries, many well-known comics artists have focused their attention on historical and political events. In works ranging from comic books and graphic novels to newspaper strips, cartoonists have addressed such controversial topics as French and Belgian collaboration and resistance during World War II, European colonialism and U.S. imperialism, anti-Semitism in France, the integr

Table Of Contents

French-language comics terminology and referencing -- Representation of history and politics in French-language comics and graphic novels: an introduction / Mark McKinney -- pt. 1. History, politics, and the Bande dessinée tradition. Trapped in the past: anti-semitism in Hergé's Flight 714 / Hugo Frey -- Re-imaging heroes/rewriting history: the pictures and texts in children's newspapers in France, 1939-45 / Clare Tufts -- The concept of "patrimoine" in contemporary Franco-Belgian comics production / Bart Beaty -- pt. 2. Political reportage and globalism in Bandes dessinées. Citizenship and city spaces: Bande dessinée as reportage / Ann Miller -- Games without frontiers: the representation of politics and the politics of representation in Schuiten and Peeters's La frontière invisible / Fabrice Leroy -- pt. 3. Facing colonialism and imperialism in Bandes dessinées. The Algerian War in Road to America (Baru, Thévenet, and Ledran) / Mark McKinney -- The Congo drawn in Belgium / Pascal Lefèvre -- Distractions from history: redrawing ethnic trajectories in New Caledonia / Amanda Macdonald -- Textual absence, textual color: a journey through memory -- Cosey's Saigon-Hanoi / Cécile Vernier Danehy -- pt. 4. A French cartoonist's perspective on the working class and Bandes dessinées. The working class and comics: a French cartoonist's perspective / Baru

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