Graphic Novels and Comics as World Literature
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Graphic Novels and Comics as World Literature

  1. 304 pages
  2. English
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  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Graphic Novels and Comics as World Literature

About this book

Graphic narratives are one of the world's great art forms, but graphic novels and comics from Europe and the United States dominate scholarly conversations about them. Building upon the little extant scholarship on graphic narratives from the Global South, this collection moves beyond a narrow Western approach to this quickly expanding field. By focusing on texts from the Middle East, Africa, Latin America, and Asia, these essays expand the study of graphic narratives to a global scale. Graphic Novels and Comics as World Literature is also interested in how these texts engage with, fit in with, or complicate notions of World Literature. The larger theoretical framework of World Literature is joined with the postcolonial, decolonial, Global South, and similar approaches that argue explicitly or implicitly for the viability of non-Western graphic narratives on their own terms. Ultimately, this collection explores the ways that the unique formal qualities of graphic narratives from the Global South intersect with issues facing the study of international literatures, such as translation, commodification, circulation, Orientalism, and many others.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. List of Figures
  4. Introduction: Global South Comics on Their Own Terms James Hodapp
  5. 1 Pages of Exception: Graphic Reportage as World Literature Dominic Davies
  6. 2 Latin Americaā€™s Tinta Femenina and Its Place in Graphic ā€œWorld Literatureā€ Jasmin Wrobel
  7. 3 An Alternative Worldliness: Verbal and Visual Experimentations in Fī shiqqat bāb el-loq (The Apartment in Bab El-Louk) Dima Nasser
  8. 4 Boys Love in Latin America: The Migration of Aesthetics in Contemporary Graphic Narrative Camila GutiƩrrez
  9. 5 A Sociological Approach to Francophone African Comics (1978ā€“2016) Sandra Federici
  10. 6 Born in the ā€œWorldā€: Leila Abdelrazaqā€™s Writing and Art as World Literature Allison Blecker
  11. 7 Utopias Gone Wrong: Representing the Dystopic Urban in the Indian Graphic Narrative Debadrita Chakraborty
  12. 8 Opening Up a World and the Temporalā€“Normative Dimension: Keum Suk Gendry-Kimā€™s Grass as World Literature Jin Lee
  13. 9 Between the Saltwater and the Desert: Indigenous Australian Tales from the Margins Catherine Sly
  14. 10 A Case Study of Sitaā€™s Ramayana, Diasporic Negotiations, COVID-19, and the Television Serial Ramayana Shilpa Daithota Bhat
  15. 11 Wakanda as a Sustainable Smart Society: Africanfuturism in Marvelā€™s Black Panther Jana Fedtke
  16. 12 Neoliberal Ideologies in Menggapai Bintang (Reach for the Stars) Mohd Muzhafar Idrus, Habibah Ismail and Hazlina Abdullah
  17. 13 ā€œLong Live the Waste!ā€: Junk Food Bites Back in Jungā€™s Approved for Adoption Sheng-mei Ma
  18. Notes on Contributors
  19. Index