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Summary:

This book explores the historical and cultural significance of comics in languages other than English, examining the geographic and linguistic spheres which these comics inhabit and their contributions to comic studies and academia. The volume brings together texts across a wide range of genres, styles, and geographic locations, including the Netherlands, Colombia, Greece, Mexico, Poland, Finland, Portugal, Ireland, and the Czech Republic, among others. These works have remained out of reach for speakers of languages other than the original and do not receive the scholarly attention they deserve due to their lack of English translations. This book highlights the richness and diversity these works add to the corpus of comic art and comic studies that Anglophone comics scholars can access to broaden the collective perspective of the field and forge links across regions, genres, and comic traditions. Part of the Global Perspectives in Comics Studies series, this volume spans continents and languages. It will be of interest to researchers and students of comics studies, literature, cultural studies, popular culture, art and design, illustration, history, film studies, and sociology.

Table of Contents:

• Outwitting the Flemish Past: Willy Vandersteen's Dealing with Brabant Underdogs in Suske en Wiske's 'Het Spaanse spook' (1948-1950) / Michel De Dobbeleer
• Displacement, Space, and Questions of Belonging: German and Colombian Graphic Novels in Dialogue / Felipe Gomez and Gabi Maier
• Visual Aspects of Modern Greek Identity / Ioanna Papaki
• Mexico's Conquest, Independence, and Revolution According to Rius / Annick Pellegrin
• Socialist Swedish Comics: Anticapitalism, International Solidarity and Whiteness in Johan Vilde and The Phantom / Robert Aman
• Abandoning Ideals and Producing Graphic Disillusionment in Suomen suurin kommunisti / Oskari Rantala
• Capitalism, Freedom, Future: Picture of Polish Transformation in the Graphic Novel Osiedle Swoboda / Wojciech Lewandowski
• Dissent and Resistance in Contemporary Portuguese Comics: The Case of Buraco #4 and Porto's Es.Col.A. Movement / Pedro Moura
• How to Discuss Sexual Identity, Minority Rights, and Society in Chile?: The Case of Katherine Supnem's 'Underground' Comics / Mario Faust-Scalisi
• Questioning the Inescapable Male Gaze in Altarriba and Kim's El arte de volar and El ala rota / Mikel Bermello Isusi
• The Pirate, the Queen, and the Handkerchief: Grainne Mhaol, an Irishwoman among Men / Christina M. Knopf
• Expressions of Subjectivity: Recent Historical Events Represented in Twenty-First-Century Chilean Autobiographical Comics / Paloma Dominguez Jeria and Mariana Munoz
• Punťa the Dog Goes to the Second Italo-Abyssinian War: Czech, Polish, and American Comic Heroes in the Real-World Conflict of 1935-1936 / Lucie Kořinkova and Pavel Kořinek.

Contributors:

Earle, Harriet E. H. , editor

Lund, Martin, 1984- , editor

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Identity and history in non-Anglophone comics (London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2023 — ISBN 9781032269238; OCLC Number 1350430996)

Related Series:

Global perspectives in comics studies

Subjects:

Comic books, strips, etc. — History and criticism

Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature

Gender identity in comics

Sex in comics

History in comics

Comic books, strips, etc.

Genres:

Comics criticism

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Harriet E.H. Earle is a senior lecturer in English at Sheffield Hallam University and research fellow at the Centre for War, Atrocity, and Genocide at the University of Nipissing. She is the author of Comics, Trauma, and the New Art of War (2017) and Comics: An Introduction (2020) and the series editor of Global Perspectives in Comics Studies. She also sits on the editorial board of the Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics. Martin Lund is senior lecturer in religious studies at the Department of Society, Culture and Identity at Malm ̲University, Sweden. He is the author of Re-Constructing the Man of Steel: Superman 1938-1941, Jewish American History, and the Invention of the Jewish-Comics Connection (2016) and co-editor of Muslim Superheroes: Comics, Islam, and Representation (2017, with A. David Lewis) and Unstable Masks: Whiteness and American Superhero Comics (2020, with Sean Guynes). His research interests include the intersections of religions and comics, comics and identity, and comics and urban life. He is also co-editor of the series Encapsulations: Critical Comics Studies (with Julia Round).
Description based on: Online resource; title from PDF title page (Taylor & Francis Group platform, viewed May 22, 2023).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 285 pages) : illustrations (black and white).

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

PN6710 .I44 2023eb

ISBNs:

9781000872132 (electronic book)
1000872130 (electronic book)
9781003386841 (electronic book)
1003386849 (electronic book)
9781000872149 (electronic book, EPUB)
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OCLC Numbers:

1371954405