| Collation |
viii, 235 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
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text rdacontent |
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unmediated rdamedia |
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volume rdacarrier |
| Series |
Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures ; 30 |
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Routledge research in postcolonial literatures ; 30.
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| Bibliog. |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
This collection examines new comic book cultures, graphic writing and bande dessinée texts as they relate to postcolonialism in contemporary Anglophone and Francophone settings. The individual chapters are framed within a larger enquiry that considers definitive aspects of the postcolonial condition in twenty-first century (con)texts.0Authors demonstrate that the field of comic book production and circulation in various regional histories introduce new postcolonial vocabularies. These scripts employ visual grammars, image-texts and iconic performances that reconstitute conventional "image-functions" in established social texts and political systems, and thus re-envision competing narratives of resistance, rights, and freedoms. In this sense, postcolonial comic cultures are of particular significance in the context of a newly global and politically recomposed landscape. This volume introduces a timely intervention within current comic book area studies that remains firmly situated within the US-European and Japanese manga paradigms and their reading publics. It will be of great interest to a wide variety of disciplines including postcolonial studies, comics area studies, cultural studies and gender studies. |
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Comic books, strips, etc. -- History and criticism.
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Graphic novels -- History and criticism.
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Postcolonialism in literature.
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Comic books, strips, etc. fast (OCoLC)fst00869145 |
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Graphic novels. fast (OCoLC)fst00946656 |
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Postcolonialism in literature. fast (OCoLC)fst01073035 |
| Alt Author |
Mehta, Binita, 1962- editor.
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Mukherji, Pia, 1966- editor.
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| ISBN |
9780415738132 (hbk) |
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041573813X (hbk) |
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9781315817576 (ebk) |
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