History and politics in French language comics and graphic novels
By: edited by Mark McKinney
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Jackson
Language: eng
Number of pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9781604730043
Subjects: History in art; History in literature; Politics in art; History and criticism; Politics in literature; Comic books, strips
Description: "History and Politics in French-Language Comics and Graphic Novels collects new essays that address comics from a variety of viewpoints, including a piece from practicing artist Baru. The explorations range from discussion of such canonical works as Herge's Tintin series to such contemporary expressions as Baru's Road to America (2002), about the Algerian War. Included are close readings of specific comics series and graphic novels, such as Cecile Vernier Danehy's examination of Cosey's Saigon Hanoi, about remembering the Vietnam War. Other writers use theoretical lenses as a means of critiquing a broad range of comics, such as Bart Beaty's Bourdieu-inspired reading of today's comics field, and Amanda Macdonald's analysis of bandes dessinees (French comic books) in New Caledonia during the 1990s." "The anthology establishes the French-language comics tradition as one rich with representations of history and politics and is one of the first English-language collections to explore the subject."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: French-language comics terminology and referencing; title: Representation of history and politics in French-language comics and graphic novels: an introduction / Mark McKinney; title: pt. 1. History, politics, and the Bande dessinée tradition. Trapped in the past: anti-semitism in Hergé's Flight 714 / Hugo Frey; title: Re-imaging heroes/rewriting history: the pictures and texts in children's newspapers in France, 1939-45 / Clare Tufts; title: The concept of "patrimoine" in contemporary Franco-Belgian comics production / Bart Beaty; title: pt. 2. Political reportage and globalism in Bandes dessinées. Citizenship and city spaces: Bande dessinée as reportage / Ann Miller; title: Games without frontiers: the representation of politics and the politics of representation in Schuiten and Peeters's La frontière invisible / Fabrice Leroy; title: pt. 3. Facing colonialism and imperialism in Bandes dessinées. The Algerian War in Road to America (Baru, Thévenet, and Ledran) / Mark McKinney; title: The Congo drawn in Belgium / Pascal Lefèvre; title: Distractions from history: redrawing ethnic trajectories in New Caledonia / Amanda Macdonald; title: Textual absence, textual color: a journey through memory - Cosey's Saigon-Hanoi / Cécile Vernier Danehy; title: 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.