By Binita Mehta,Pia Mukherji

ISBN-10: 041573813X

ISBN-13: 9780415738132

This assortment examines new comic-book cultures, photo writing, and bande dessinée texts as they relate to postcolonialism in modern Anglophone and Francophone settings. the person chapters are framed inside a bigger enquiry that considers definitive features of the postcolonial situation in twenty-first-century (con)texts.


The authors exhibit that the fields of comic-book creation and circulate in quite a few nearby histories introduce new postcolonial vocabularies, reconstitute traditional "image-functions" in proven social texts and political structures, and current competing narratives of resistance and rights. during this feel, postcolonial comedian cultures are of specific importance within the context of a newly international and politically recomposed panorama.


This quantity introduces a well timed intervention inside of present comic-book-area reports that stay firmly positioned in the "U.S.-European and eastern manga paradigms" and their analyzing publics. it is going to be of serious curiosity to a large choice of disciplines together with postcolonial reports, comics-area reviews, cultural stories, and gender experiences.

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