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Comics: An Introduction
Abingdon, Oxon; New York: Routledge (2021), xi, 214 pp.
"Taking a broadly global approach, Harriet Earle discusses the history and development of the form internationally, as well as how to navigate comics as a new way of reading. Earle also pushes beyond the book to lay out the ways that fans engage with their comics of choice – and how this can impac
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The Routledge Companion to Gender and Sexuality in Comic Book Studies
London; New York: Routledge (2021), xxiv, 569 pp.
"A diverse range of international and interdisciplinary scholars take a closer look at how gender and sexuality have been essential in the evolution of comics, and how gender and sexuality in comics demand that we re-frame and re-view comics history. Essays cover a wide array of intersectional topic
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Die Shoah im Comic seit 2000: Erinnern zeichnen
Berlin; Boston: de Gruyter (2021), 366 pp.
"Wie erinnern künftige Generationen an die Shoah, wenn die letzten Zeitzeugen gestorben sind? Die Comics der vergangenen Jahre geben Hinweise darauf: Während die Kinder noch versuchen, Anschluss an die nicht mehr selbst erlebte, aber gleichwohl als einschneidend erfahrene Vergangenheit ihrer Elter
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Transmedia Storytelling in East Asia: The Age of Digital Media
London: Routledge (2020), xvi, 253 pp.
"This book offers a thorough investigation of the recent surge of webtoons and manga / animation as the sources of transmedia storytelling for popular culture, not only in East Asia but in the wider global context. An international team of experts employ a unique theoretical framework of media conve
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Comics Beyond the Page in Latin America
London: UCL Press; University College London (2020), xiv, 229 pp.
"Despite lack of funding and institutional support, not since the mid-twentieth century have comics in the region been so dynamic, so diverse and so engaged with pressing social and cultural issues. Comics are being used as essential tools in debates about, for example, digital cultures, gender iden
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Kaboom! Of Stereotypes and Superheroes - African Comics on Africa = Von Stereotypen und Superhelden - Afrikanische Comics und Comics zu Afrika
Deep Insights
Basel; Frankfurt am Main: Basler Afrika Bibliographien; Namibia Resource Centre & Southern Africa Library; Brandes & Apsel, 2nd. ed. (2020), 156 pp.
"Die Herausgeber des Buches stellen ein vielfältges Spektrum afrikanischer Comic-Kunst vor – von Superhelden- und Undergroundcomics bis hin zu solchen mit propagandistischem Inhalt oder Bildungsanspruch. Lehr- und Aufklärungscomics hatten in Afrika in der zweiten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts ihr
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Documenting Trauma in Comics: Traumatic Pasts, Embodied Histories, and Graphic Reportage
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2020), xxi, 345 pp.
"Why are so many contemporary comics and graphic narratives written as memoirs or documentaries of traumatic events? Is there a specific relationship between the comics form and the documentation and reportage of trauma? How do the interpretive demands made on comics readers shape their relationship
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Satire and Protest: The Middle East Through Egyptian Cartoons
Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2019), 23 pp.
"This paper aims at examining how Egyptian popular culture shapes perception of the Israeli – Palestinian conflict through the widespread medium of political cartoons. The paper examines cartoons published in Egyptian newspapers after the American president, Donald Trump, announced in 2017 that th
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A cat-and-Maus game: The politics of truth and reconciliation in post-conflict comics
Review of International Studies, volume 45, issue 4 (2019), pp. 588-606
"Several scholars have raised concerns that the institutional mechanisms through which transitional justice is commonly promoted in post-conflict societies can alienate affected populations. Practitioners have looked to bridge this gap by developing ‘outreach’ programmes, in some instances commi
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Para hacer historietas
Lima: Instituto de Estudios Peruanos (IEP), octava ed. corregida y aument. (2019), 309 pp.
"La primera edición de 'Para hacer historietas' es de 1978 y nació de la experiencia de los talleres que Juan Acevedo impartió en el entonces naciente Villa El Salvador. El libro alcanzó repercusión internacional gracias a sus ediciones españolas, alemanas y brasileñas. Agotado hace más de 2
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The Representation of Genocide in Graphic Novels: Considering the Role of Kitsch
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2019), ix, 230 pp.
"This book mobilises the concept of kitsch to investigate the tensions around the representation of genocide in international graphic novels that focus on the Holocaust and the genocides in Armenia, Rwanda, and Bosnia. In response to the predominantly negative readings of kitsch as meaningless or in
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Comics and sacred texts: Reimagining religion and graphic narratives
Jackson (MS): University Press of Mississippi (2018), xxi, 299 pp.
"In both visual and linguistic forms, graphic narratives reveal representational strategies to encounter the sacred in all its ambivalence. Through close readings and critical inquiry, these essays contemplate the intersections between religion and comics in ways that critically expand our ability t
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Historias e historietas: Representaciones de la historia en el cómic latinoamericano actual
Madrid; Frankfurt am Main: Iberoamericana; Vervuert (2018), 258 pp.
"Con el presente volumen quisimos reunir trabajos que presentan diversos aspectos tanto de la producción historietística en la América hispanohablante, como de la representación de la Historia en este medio. Tan diversos como los países son los cómics aquí analizados, lo cual demuestra a nues
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"Las historietas y las novelas gráficas se han convertido no sólo en fuente de entretenimiento, sino también en objeto de estudio en el contexto latinoamericano, por lo menos desde la publicación del famoso Para leer al Pato Donald de Ariel Dorfman y Armand Mattelart, en 1972. Recientemente, est
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Illustrated (Hi)stories
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) (2018), 207 pp.
"Das Gedenken an den Ersten Weltkrieg in Deutschland und Europa ist nach wie vor sehr auf die europäische Perspektive beschränkt. Tatsächlich war der Krieg ein globaler: Millionen Soldaten aus kolonisierten Gebieten nahmen an den Kämpfen teil. Die Kolonialtruppen bildeten ein wesentliches Elemen
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Posthumanism and the Graphic Novel in Latin America
London: UCL Press (2017), xii, 252 pp.
Madgermanes
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Lizenzausg. (2017), 236 pp.
"Vor allem aus wirtschaftlichen Erwägungen heraus warb die DDR Ende der 1970er Jahre tausende Vertragsarbeiter aus Mosambik an. Die jungen Frauen und Männer aus dem vom Bürgerkrieg zerrissenen sozialistischen Bruderstaat, die voller Hoffnung auf eine gute Ausbildung nach Deutschland kamen, hatten
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The Routledge Companion to Comics
New York; London: Routledge (2017), xvi, 455 pp.
"This cutting-edge handbook brings together an international roster of scholars to examine many facets of comics and graphic novels. Contributor essays provide authoritative, up-to-date overviews of the major topics and questions within comic studies, offering readers a truly global approach to unde
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Comics & Memory in Latin America
Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press (2017), vi, 262 pp.
"Latin American comics and graphic novels have a unique history of addressing controversial political, cultural, and social issues. This volume presents new perspectives on how comics on and from Latin America both view and express memory formation on major historical events and processes. The contr
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Comics Art in China
Jackson: University Press of Mississippi (2017), xiii, 234 pp.
"This volume encompasses political, social, and gag cartoons, lianhuanhua (picture books), comic books, humorous drawings, cartoon and humor periodicals, and donghua (animation) while exploring topics ranging from the earliest Western-influenced cartoons and the popular, often salacious, 1930s humor
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