History and Politics in French-Language Comics and Graphic Novels

By Mark McKinney, Baru, Bart Beaty

Book Overview

Perspectives on French-language comics and graphic novels INCLUDES Baru, "The Working Class and Comics: A French Cartoonist's Perspective" Bart Beaty, "The Concept of 'Patrimoine' in Contemporary Franco-Belgian Comics Production" C cile Vernier Danehy, "Textual Absence, Textual Color: A Journey Through Memory-Cosey's Saigon-Hanoi" Hugo Frey, "Trapped in the Past: Anti-Semitism in Herg 's Flight 714" Pascal Lef vre, "The Congo Drawn in Belgium" Fabrice Leroy, "Games Without Frontiers: The Representation of Politics and the Politics of Representation in Schuiten and Peeters's La fronti re invisible" Amanda Macdonald, "Distractions from History: Redrawing Ethnic Trajectories in New Caledonia" Mark McKinney, "The Algerian War in Road to America (Baru, Th venet, and Ledran)" Ann Miller, "Citizenship and City Spaces: Bande dessin e as Reportage" Clare Tufts, "Re-imaging Heroes / Rewriting History: The Pictures and Texts in Children's Newspapers in France, 1939-45" Mark McKinney is associate professor of French at Miami University, Ohio. With Alec G. Hargreaves, he edited Post-Colonial Cultures in France.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1617030473
• ISBN13: 9781617030475
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"