Graphic Narratives of Resistance : Advocating for Representation and Social Justice in French-language Bandes Dessinées (New Directions in Francophone Studies: Diversity, Decolonisation, Queerness)

Boum Make, Jennifer (EDT)/ Verstraet, Charly (EDT)

Edinburgh University Press（2025/08発売）

Edinburgh University Press（2025/08発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 328 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781399529297
• DDC分類 741.53556

Full Description

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 dessinees (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.

Contents

List of Figures
Foreword by Jessica Oublié, translated into English by Jeffrey Landon Allen
Acknowledgements

Introduction
Jennifer Boum Make and Charly Verstraet

Part I. Ecographic Narratives and Social Justice
1. Ecographic Narratives of Resistance and for Liberation: Mines, Nuclear Sites and Factory Farms in Bande Dessinée
Armelle Blin-Rolland
2. The Indigenous Taiwanese Environmental Activism of Li-Chin Lin's Sino-French Graphic Narrative Fudafudak (2017)
Michelle E. Bloom

Part II. Moving Beyond Stereotypes: Rethinking Representations of Black Francophone Peoples and Cultures
3. Resisting Archetypal Images in Alpha: Abidjan to Gare du Nord by Bessora and Barroux
Agnès Schaffauser
4. Caricaturing Life from the Inside: An Exploration of the Extremes in Aya de Yopougon
Patoimbasba Nikiema

Part III. Drawing Against the Normativity of Knowledge and Identities
5. Solidarity, Friendship and Love in the Penal Colony
Sophie Fuggle
6. Agnès Maupré's Le Chevalier d'Éon (2014-15): Reimagining Gender Fluidity in Eighteenth-Century France
Maxence Leconte and Logan Crews
7. Negotiating Transnational Masculinity in Riad Sattouf's L'Arabe du futur
Donald Joseph
8. Resisting Closure: Auto-Representation and Interdependence in the Disability Bande Dessinée
Marie Satya McDonough and Jennifer Eun-Jung Row
9. Theorising Mauritian Bandes Dessinées as a Pluriversal Praxis
Jeanne Jégousso

Part IV. Drawing Memories of War and Revolution
10. Post-Revolutionary Tunisia in Comics and Cartooning
Jennifer Howell
11. War Trauma and the 'Drive for Life' in Mazen Kerbaj's Lettre à la mère (2013)
Myriem El Maïzi
12. Redrawing the Counter-Archive: Visual Memory, Trauma and Resistance in the Graphic Novels Quitter Saigon (2010) and Descente en enfer (2005)
Charlotte Mackay and Tess Do
13. The Independence Eleven: Football, Memory and Resistance in the Algerian Revolution
Charly Verstraet

Part V. Colonial Legacies of the French Empire and Contemporary Challenges of the French Nation
14. Framing France in the Indian Ocean: Of Shipwrecks and Fertile Women
Michelle Bumatay
15. Remediating the Colonial Catastrophe in Lucas Vallerie's Cyparis, le prisonnier de Saint-Pierre (2017)
Robert Decker
16. Producing Images of Deserted Memories: The Making of an Alternative Archive around 'the Children of Creuse'
Jennifer Boum Make

Notes on Contributors
Index