Comics of the New Europe : Reflections and Intersections / edited by Martha Kuhlman and José Alaniz.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Alaniz, José, editor.

Kuhlman, Martha, editor.

Series:

Studies in European Comics and Graphic Novels

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Comic books, strips, etc.

Criticism.

Genre:

Comics (Graphic works)

Physical Description:

1 online resource (289 pages) : illustrations some color

Place of Publication:

Leuven Leuven University Press 2023

Leuven, Belgium : Leuven University Press, 2022.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Bringing together the work of an array of North American and European scholars, this collection highlights a previously unexamined area within global comics studies. It analyses comics from countries formerly behind the Iron Curtain like East Germany, Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Yugoslavia, and Ukraine, given their shared history of WWII and communism. In addition to situating these graphic narratives in their national and subnational contexts, Comics of the New Europe pays particular attention to transnational connections along the common themes of nostalgia, memoir, and life under communism. The essays offer insights into a new generation of European cartoonists that looks forward, inspired and informed by traditions from Franco-Belgian and American comics, and back, as they use the medium of comics to reexamine and reevaluate not only their national pasts and respective comics traditions but also their own post-1989 identities and experiences.

Contents:

General introduction: comics of the "new" Europe / Martha Kuhlman, José Alaniz

Part 1. The former Yugoslav states

Un-drawn experience: visualizing trauma in Aleksandar Zograf's

Regards from Serbia / Max Bledstein

Filial estrangement and figurative mourning in the work of Nina Bunjevac / Dragana Obradovic

Reality check through the historical avant-garde: Danilo Milosev Wostok / Aleksandra Sekulic

Part 2. Czechoslovakia/the Czech Republic

Facets of nostalgia: text-centric longing in comics and graphic novels by Pavel Cech / Pavel Korinek

The avant-garde aesthetic of Vojtech Masek / Martha Kuhlman

Regardless of context: graphic novels with the faceless (and homelandless) hero of Branko Jelinek / Martin Foret

Part 3. Germany

Co-opting childhood and obscuring ideology in Mosaik von Hannes Hegen, 1959-1974 / Sean Eedy

Images of spies and counter spies in East German comics / Michael F. Scholz

Towards a graphic historicity: authenticity and photography in the German graphic novel / Elizabeth "Biz" Nijdam

Part 4. Poland, Ukraine, Romania, Hungary

Women, feminism and Polish comic books: Fras/Hagedorn's Totalnie nie nostalgia / Ewa Staficzyk

Igor Baranko and national precarity in post-Soviet Ukrainian comics / Jose Alaniz

The autobiographical mode in post-communist Romanian comics: everyday life in Brynjar Abel Bandlien's Strimb living and Andreea

Chirica's The year of the pioneer / Mihaela Precup

Avatars and iteration in contemporary Hungarian autobiographical comics / Eszter Szep.

Notes:

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9789461665270

946166527X

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access