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On Black bandes dessinées and transcolonial power / Michelle Bumatay.

Van Pelt Library PN6710 .B86 2025
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Bumatay, Michelle, author.
Series:
Studies in comics and cartoons
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Comic books, strips, etc--Africa, French-speaking--History and criticism.
Comic books, strips, etc.
Postcolonialism--Africa, French-speaking.
Postcolonialism.
Physical Description:
x, 155 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Place of Publication:
Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2025]
Summary:
"Examines the diversity of Black francophone cartoonists' aesthetic and material responses to the colonially inherited medium of bandes dessinées. Considers twentieth- and twenty-first-century comics by artists such as Pahé, Marguerite Abouet, Barly Baruti, and Papa Mfumu'Eto, among other creators from nations including the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Cameroon, and Gabon"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
A tale of two Kinshasas, or the plurality of everyday postcolonialism
The AYA effect, or Marguerite Abouet's timely and timeless interventions
Reframing migration in the twenty-first century
Black bandes dessinées and eecolonial ecocriticism
Coda: Black bandes dessinées and beyond.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 133-144) and index.
ISBN:
9780814215821
0814215823
9780814259375
0814259375
OCLC:
1465002590

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