Comics of the New Europe : reflections and intersections / edited by Martha Kuhlman & José Alaniz.
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, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Yugosl...
Uniform Title: | Studies in European comics and graphic novels ;
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Language: | English |
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Leuven :
Leuven University Press,
[2020]
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Series: | Studies in European comics and graphic novels ;
7. |
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Physical Description: | 289 pages : illustrations (color, black and white) ; 23 cm. |
Format: | Book |
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, Czechoslovakia, 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. |
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Call Number: | PN6790.E9 C66 2020 |
Bibliography Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9789462702127 9462702128 |