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On Black bandes dessinées and transcolonial power / Michelle Bumatay.
- 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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