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Record Nr.

UNINA9910458465903321

Titolo

History and politics in French-language comics and graphic novels [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Mark McKinney

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Jackson, Miss., : University Press of Mississippi, c2008

ISBN

1-283-43469-5

9786613434692

1-4416-7878-6

1-60473-761-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (317 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

McKinneyMark <1961->

Disciplina

741.5/3580917541

Soggetti

Comic books, strips, etc - Europe, French-speaking - History and criticism

History in literature

Politics in literature

History in art

Politics in art

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Papers from the conference entitled History and Politics in French-language Comics held at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, Nov. 11-13, 2004.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-276) and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. History, politics, and the Bande dessinée tradition -- pt. 2. Political reportage and globalism in Bandes dessinées -- pt. 3. Facing colonialism and imperialism in Bandes dessinées -- pt. 4. A French cartoonist's perspective on the working class and Bandes dessinées.

Sommario/riassunto

With Essays by Baru, Bart Beaty, Ccile Vernier Danehy, Hugo Frey, Pascal Lefvre, Fabrice Leroy, Amanda Macdonald, Mark McKinney, Ann Miller, and Clare Tufts In Belgium, France, Switzerland, and other French-speaking countries, many well-known comics artists have focused their attention on historical and political events. In works ranging from comic books and graphic novels to newspaper strips, cartoonists have addressed such controversial topics as French and Belgian collaboration and resistance during World War II, European colonialism and U.S.



imperialism, anti-Semitism in France, the integr