Description
Postcolonialism and migration are major themes in contemporary French comics and have roots in the Algerian War (1954-62), anti-racist struggle, and mass migration to France. This volume studies comics from the formal dismantling of the French colonial empire in 1962 up to the present. French cartoonists of ethnic minority and immigrant heritage are a major focus, including Zeina Abirached (Lebanon), Yvan Alagbé (Benin), Baru (Italy), Enki Bilal (former Yugoslavia), Farid Boudjellal (Algeria and Armenia), José Jover (Spain), Larbi Mechkour (Algeria), and Roland Monpierre (Guadeloupe). The author analyses comics representing a gamut of perspectives on immigration and postcolonial ethnic minorities, ranging from staunch defense to violent rejection. Individual chapters are dedicated to specific artists, artistic collectives, comics, or themes, including including avant-gardism, undocumented migrants in comics, and racism in far-right comics.
Author: Mark McKinney
Publisher: Leuven University Press
Published: 03/15/2021
Pages: 400
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 2.00lbs
Size: 8.90h x 7.70w x 0.90d
ISBN13: 9789462702417
ISBN10: 9462702411
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | Comics & Graphic Novels
- Literary Criticism | European | French
About the Author
Mark McKinney is Professor of French at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, USA. He has written The Colonial Heritage of French Comics and Redrawing French Empire in Comics.