History and Politics in French-Language Comics and Graphic Novels

317 Pages·2008·7.52 MB·English

by  Mark McKinney

History Politics
and
French-Language
in
Comics Graphic Novels
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History Politics
and
French-Language
in
Comics Graphic Novels
and
Mark Mckinney
edited by
University Press of MississiPPi / Jackson
www.upress.state.ms.us
the University Press of
Mississippi is a member
of the association of american
University Presses.
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Press of Mississippi
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Manufactured in the United
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Library of congress cataloging-in-Publication Data
History and politics in french-language comics and
graphic novels / edited by Mark Mckinney.
p. cm.
Papers from the conference entitled History and
Politics in french-language comics held at Miami
University, oxford, ohio, nov. 11–13, 2004.
includes bibliographical references and index.
isBn 978-1-60473-004-3 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. comic
books, strips, etc.—europe, french-speaking—History
and criticism. 2. History in literature. 3. Politics in lit-
erature. 4. History in art. 5. Politics in art. i. Mckinney,
Mark, 1961–
Pn6790.e9H57 2008
741.5’3580917541—dc22
2007045711
British Library cataloging-in-Publication Data available
à Louise,
qui a appris à lire grâce à Astérix et aux Barbapapa,
dans sa langue maternelle and her father tongue,
et qui vient de terminer son premier stage
de dessinatrice de bandes dessinées
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Contents
xi Editor’s Acknowledgments
xiii French-Language Comics Terminology and Referencing
3 cHaPter one
Representations of History and Politics in French-Language
Comics and Graphic Novels: An Introduction
—Mark McKinney
Part One
History, Politics, and the Bande dessinée Tradition
27 cHaPter two
Trapped in the Past: Anti-Semitism in Hergé’s Flight 714
—Hugo Frey
44 cHaPter tHree
Re-imaging Heroes / Rewriting History: The Pictures and Texts
in Children’s Newspapers in France, 1939–45
—Clare Tufts
69 cHaPter foUr
The Concept of “Patrimoine” in Contemporary Franco-Belgian
Comics Production
—Bart Beaty
viii Contents
Part Two
Political Reportage and Globalism in Bandes dessinées
97 cHaPter five
Citizenship and City Spaces: Bande dessinée as Reportage
—Ann Miller
117 cHaPter six
Games Without Frontiers: The Representation of Politics
and the Politics of Representation in Schuiten and Peeters’s
La frontière invisible
—Fabrice Leroy
Part Three
Facing Colonialism and Imperialism in Bandes dessinées
139 cHaPter seven
The Algerian War in Road to America (Baru, Thévenet,
and Ledran)
—Mark McKinney
166 cHaPter eigHt
The Congo Drawn in Belgium
—Pascal Lef èvre
186 cHaPter nine
Distractions from History: Redrawing Ethnic Trajectories in
New Caledonia
—Amanda Macdonald
212 cHaPter ten
Textual Absence, Textual Color: A Journey Through Memory—
Cosey’s Saigon-Hanoi
—Cécile Vernier Danehy
Contents ix
Part Four
A French Cartoonist’s Perspective on the Working Class and
Bandes dessinées
239 cHaPter eLeven
The Working Class and Comics: A French Cartoonist’s
Perspective
—Baru
259 Bibliography
277 Contributors
281 Index