Graphic Narratives of Resistance - (New Directions in Francophone Studies: Diversity, Decolonisation, Queerness) (Hardcover)

About the Book

Examines the political and aesthetic gestures embedded in bandes dessinées and graphic novels in order to question the past and the contemporary realities of the French-speaking world.

Book Synopsis

This edited volume sheds light on the unique capacity of the comics medium for redrawing histories and for exploring hidden, forbidden or imagined spaces. Studying a variety of texts from the French-speaking world, it considers how bandes dessinées (BD) and graphic novels can highlight environmental, gender, racial, religious, political and social questions. It also demonstrates how BD can offer readers new perspectives through formal experiment and through reworking and subverting dominant iconographies. The contributions in this volume showcase how the comic medium, through the combination of text and image, engages with notions of voice, power, bias and perspective, and can be used as a pedagogical tool and a form of resistance to discuss diversity, decolonisation, inclusion and social justice issues.

Review Quotes

This engaging collection of essays provides original perspectives on the medium-specific capabilities of graphic literature to fill historical and representational voids, reconsider past iconographies and address the legacies of marginalisation in a critical light. In their sharp analyses of graphic counternarratives that challenge normative constructs of history, nationhood, race, gender, disability and ecology, the authors offer a valuable contribution not only to comics scholarship but also to the advocacy for justice.--Fabrice Leroy, University of Louisiana at Lafayette