Comics and the Global South

Andrea Aramburú is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Manchester. She holds a PhD in Latin American Studies from the University of Cambridge. Her research explores Latin American visual cultures through queer theory and decolonial feminisms. Dibyadyuti Roy is an associate professor in Cultural Studies, Media Studies, and Digital Humanities at the University of Leeds. His scholarship and teaching interrogates cultural narratives of dominant and emergent technologies, with a particular focus on the impact of digitality within marginalized communities. Joe Sutliff Sanders is a Fellow at Lucy Cavendish College and a specialist in children’s media in the Faculty of Education at the University of Cambridge.

• Introduction Andrea Aramburú, Dibyadyuti Roy, and Joe Sutliff SandersChapter One. Hong Kong Comics : A Liminal Space Bridging the Global South and the Global North Kin-Wai ChuChapter Two. Digital Dreams and Its Discontents: Piracy and Comics in South America Amadeo GandolfoChapter Three. Working with the Frames : Retellings and Reconstructions in Indian Graphic Narratives Amrutha MohanChapter Four. Out of the Frame: The Third Space in Indian Graphic Narratives Debanjana NayekChapter Five. Deconstructing the “Gutter” : A Decolonial Study of the Journey from Patachitra to Comics in Famine Tales Rounak Gupta and Partha BhattacharjeeChapter Six. Malungas: A Global South Feminist Epistemology in Comics Letícia SimõesChapter Seven. Global South Comics and the Crisis of Postcolonial Masculinity : Case Studies from Bangladesh and India Dibyadyuti Roy and Swarnima BanerjeeChapter Eight. The Upper and Lower Jaws Zak WaiparaChapter Nine. Towards Indomanga: ONJ Mangaesque Narratives from India Ananya SahaChapter Ten. Drawing Slavery “With and Against the Archive” in Jesús Cossio’s Joaquín Jayme Andrea AramburúChapter Eleven. Birthing Beyond Borders: The Role of Comics in Dadaab Refugee Camps Caroline Bagelman, Jen Bagelman, and Josephine GitomeAbout the Contributors

This groundbreaking volume offers a fresh, interdisciplinary exploration of comics from the Global South. Employing innovative theoretical and methodological approaches from Postcolonial and Decolonial Studies, Intermediality, and other fields, Comics and the Global South challenges dominant narratives and expands the scope of Comics Studies beyond traditional Western-centric paradigms. This collection is a must-have for anyone interested in understanding the global power of visual storytelling and the cultural significance of comics beyond Western narratives. – Jasmin Wrobel, Ruhr-Universität Bochum