Perspectives on French-language
comics and graphic novels
INCLUDES
Baru, "The Working Class and Comics: A French Cartoonist's Perspective"
Bart Beaty, "The Concept of 'Patrimoine' in Contemporary Franco-Belgian Comics Production"
Cécile Vernier Danehy, "Textual Absence, Textual Color: A Journey Through
Memory-Cosey's Saigon-Hanoi"
Hugo Frey, "Trapped in the Past: Anti-Semitism in Hergé's Flight 714"
Pascal Lefèvre, "The Congo Drawn in Belgium"
Fabrice Leroy, "Games Without Frontiers: The Representation of Politics and the
Politics of Representation in Schuiten and Peeters's La frontière invisible"
Amanda Macdonald, "Distractions from History: Redrawing Ethnic Trajectories in
New Caledonia"
Mark McKinney, "The Algerian War in Road to America (Baru, Thévenet, and Ledran)"
Ann Miller, "Citizenship and City Spaces: Bande dessinée as Reportage"
Clare Tufts, "Re-imaging Heroes / Rewriting History: The Pictures and Texts in
Children's Newspapers in France, 1939-45"
Mark McKinney is associate professor of French at Miami University, Ohio. With Alec G. Hargreaves, he edited Post-Colonial Cultures in France.
