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Graphic Novels and Comics as World Literature

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

AvJames Hodapp,Qatar) Hodapp, Prof James (Northwestern University,Thomas Oliver Beebee

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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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Utgivningsdatum2022-05-05
Mått150 x 229 x 23 mm
Vikt580 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieLiteratures as World Literature
Antal sidor304
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781501373411

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List of FiguresIntroduction: Global South Comics on Their Own TermsJames Hodapp, Northwestern University, Qatar1. Pages of Exception: Graphic Reportage as World LiteratureDominic Davies, City University London, UK2. Latin America’s Tinta Femenina and Its Place in Graphic "World Literature"Jasmin Wrobel, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany3. An Alternative Worldliness: Verbal and Visual Experimentations in Fi shiqqat bab el-loq (The Apartment in Bab El-Louk)Dima Nasser, Brown University, USA4. Boys Love in Latin America: The Migration of Aesthetics in Contemporary Graphic NarrativeCamila Gutiérrez, Pennsylvania State University, USA5. A Sociological Approach to Francophone African Comics (1978-2016)Sandra Federici6. Born in the “World”: Leila Abdelrazaq’s Writing and Art as World LiteratureAllison Blecker, Harvard University, USA7. Utopias Gone Wrong: Representing the Dystopic Urban in the Indian Graphic NarrativeDebadrita Chakraborty, Cardiff University, UK8. Opening Up a World and the Temporal-Normative Dimension: Keum Suk Gendry-Kim’s Grass as World LiteratureJin Lee, Myongji University, South Korea9. Between the Saltwater and the Desert: Indigenous Australian Tales from the MarginsCatherine Sly, Independent Scholar, Australia10. A Case Study of Sita’s Ramayana, Diasporic Negotiations, COVID-19, and the Television Serial RamayanaShilpa Daithota Bhat, Ahmedabad University, India11. Wakanda as a Sustainable Smart Society: Africanfuturism in Marvel’s Black PantherJana Fedtke12. Neoliberal Ideologies in Menggapai Bintang (Reach for the Stars)Mohd Muzhafar Idrus, Habibah Ismail and Hazlina Abdullah, Universiti Sains Islam, Malaysia13. “LONG LIVE the Waste!”: Junk Food Bites Back in Jung’s Approved for AdoptionSheng-mei Ma, Michigan State University, USANotes on ContributorsIndex

[In] seeking to broaden the definition of “World Literature” to encompass populations, identities, and countries often dismissed by Western literary studies, this collection advances a central claim relevant to scholars studying visual media in relation to postcolonialism, neoliberalism, identity politics, and marginalization: non-Western graphic novels and comics offer insight into identity politics, cultural backgrounds, and decolonization.