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List of contents
List of Figures
Introduction: Global South Comics on Their Own Terms
James Hodapp, Northwestern University, Qatar
1. Pages of Exception: Graphic Reportage as World Literature
Dominic Davies, City University London, UK
2. Latin America’s Tinta Femenina and Its Place in Graphic "World Literature"
Jasmin Wrobel, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
3. An Alternative Worldliness: Verbal and Visual Experimentations in Fi shiqqat bab el-loq (The Apartment in Bab El-Louk)
Dima Nasser, Brown University, USA
4. Boys Love in Latin America: The Migration of Aesthetics in Contemporary Graphic Narrative
Camila Gutiérrez, Pennsylvania State University, USA
5. A Sociological Approach to Francophone African Comics (1978-2016)
Sandra Federici
6. Born in the “World”: Leila Abdelrazaq’s Writing and Art as World Literature
Allison Blecker, Harvard University, USA
7. Utopias Gone Wrong: Representing the Dystopic Urban in the Indian Graphic Narrative
Debadrita Chakraborty, Cardiff University, UK
8. Opening Up a World and the Temporal-Normative Dimension: Keum Suk Gendry-Kim’s Grass as World Literature
Jin Lee, Myongji University, South Korea
9. Between the Saltwater and the Desert: Indigenous Australian Tales from the Margins
Catherine Sly, Independent Scholar, Australia
10. A Case Study of Sita’s Ramayana, Diasporic Negotiations, COVID-19, and the Television Serial Ramayana
Shilpa Daithota Bhat, Ahmedabad University, India
11. Wakanda as a Sustainable Smart Society: Africanfuturism in Marvel’s Black Panther
Jana Fedtke
12. Neoliberal Ideologies in Menggapai Bintang (Reach for the Stars)
Mohd Muzhafar Idrus, Habibah Ismail and Hazlina Abdullah, Universiti Sains Islam, Malaysia
13. “LONG LIVE the Waste!”: Junk Food Bites Back in Jung’s Approved for Adoption
Sheng-mei Ma, Michigan State University, USA
Notes on Contributors
Index
About the author
James Hodapp is Associate Professor of English at Northwestern University in Qatar. He has published in The Journal of Postcolonial Writing, African Literature Today, Research in African Literatures, Journal of Commonwealth Literature, ARIEL, The Global South, English in Africa, Critical Arts, The Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, Short Fiction in Theory & Practice, African Studies Review, Wasafiri, The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Studies, and in several anthologies on world cinema and literature.
Summary
Addresses the recent emergence of graphic narratives from the non-Western world, contextualizing them within the fundamental questions of World Literature while exploring what the graphic form brings to literary studies writ large.
Foreword
Addresses the recent emergence of graphic narratives from the non-Western world, contextualizing them within the fundamental questions of World Literature while exploring what the graphic form brings to literary studies writ large.
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A rich journey, this book invites us to an intimate reading of comics as world literature from a Global South perspective. Playful yet aware of what is at stake literarily and politically, it transgresses geographical as well as disciplinary borders and opens our eyes to the stories of those who, more often than not, are denied border crossing. Thoroughly researched, well written, and passionate, it will appeal to literary scholars and comic book fans alike.
