Graphic Novels and Comics as World Literature Graphic Novels and Comics as World Literature
Literatures as World Literature

Graphic Novels and Comics as World Literature

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Publisher Description

Graphic narratives are one of the world's great art forms, but graphic novels and comics from Europe and the United States dominate scholarly conversations about them. Building upon the little extant scholarship on graphic narratives from the Global South, this collection moves beyond a narrow Western approach to this quickly expanding field. By focusing on texts from the Middle East, Africa, Latin America, and Asia, these essays expand the study of graphic narratives to a global scale.



Graphic Novels and Comics as World Literature is also interested in how these texts engage with, fit in with, or complicate notions of World Literature. The larger theoretical framework of World Literature is joined with the postcolonial, decolonial, Global South, and similar approaches that argue explicitly or implicitly for the viability of non-Western graphic narratives on their own terms. Ultimately, this collection explores the ways that the unique formal qualities of graphic narratives from the Global South intersect with issues facing the study of international literatures, such as translation, commodification, circulation, Orientalism, and many others.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2022
7 April
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
304
Pages
PUBLISHER
Bloomsbury Academic
SIZE
40.8
MB

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