Graphic Novels and Comics as World Literature

Graphic narratives are one of the world's great art forms, but graphic novels and comics from Europe and the United States dominate scholarly conversations about them. Building upon the little extant scholarship on graphic narratives from the Global South, this collection moves beyond a narrow Western approach to this quickly expanding field. By focusing on texts from the Middle East, Africa, Latin America, and Asia, these essays expand the study of graphic narratives to a global scale.

Graphic Novels and Comics as World Literature is also interested in how these texts engage with, fit in with, or complicate notions of World Literature. The larger theoretical framework of World Literature is joined with the postcolonial, decolonial, Global South, and similar approaches that argue explicitly or implicitly for the viability of non-Western graphic narratives on their own terms. Ultimately, this collection explores the ways that the unique formal qualities of graphic narratives from the Global South intersect with issues facing the study of international literatures, such as translation, commodification, circulation, Orientalism, and many others.

Auteur

James Hodapp is Assistant Professor of English at Northwestern University in Qatar, and editor of Afropolitan Literature as World Literature (Bloomsbury, 2020).

Contenu

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 Becker, Harvard University, USA
7. Utopias Gone Wrong: Representing the Dystopic Urban in the Indian Graphic Novel
   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