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oapen-20.500.12657-628802024-03-28T08:18:48Z Comics of the New Europe Kuhlman, Martha Alaniz, José European Comics;Transnational Comics;Graphic Narrative;Graphic narrative Memoir;Graphic narrative and History;Autographics thema EDItEUR::X Graphic novels, Comic books, Manga, Cartoons::XR Graphic novel / Comic book / Manga: Reference, guides and reviews Bringing together the work of an array of North American and European scholars, this collection highlights a previously unexamined area within global comics studies. It analyses comics from countries formerly behind the Iron Curtain like East Germany, Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Yugoslavia, and Ukraine, given their shared history of WWII and communism. In addition to situating these graphic narratives in their national and subnational contexts, Comics of the New Europepays particular attention to transnational connections along the common themes of nostalgia, memoir, and life under communism. The essays offer insights into a new generation of European cartoonists that looks forward, inspired and informed by traditions from Franco-Belgian and American comics, and back, as they use the medium of comics to reexamine and reevaluate not only their national pasts and respective comics traditions but also their own post-1989 identities and experiences. Contributors: Max Bledstein (University of Winnipeg), Dragana Obradović (University of Toronto), Aleksandra Sekulić (University of Arts in Belgrade), Pavel Kořínek (Institute of Czech Literature, Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague), Martin Foret (Palacký University), Michael Scholz (Uppsala University), Sean Eedy (Carleton University), Elizabeth Nijdam (University of British Columbia), Ewa Stańczyk (University of Amsterdam), Eszter Szép (Eötvös Loránd University) This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content). 2023-05-02T08:21:58Z 2023-05-02T08:21:58Z 2023 book 9789462702127 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/62880 eng Studies in European Comics and Graphic Novels application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9789461665270.pdf Leuven University Press 10.11116/9789461665270 10.11116/9789461665270 91436d3b-fb9a-45e9-8a57-08708b92dcda b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9789462702127 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) 7 291 Leuven Knowledge Unlatched open access
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Bringing together the work of an array of North American and European scholars, this collection highlights a previously unexamined area within global comics studies. It analyses comics from countries formerly behind the Iron Curtain like East Germany, Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Yugoslavia, and Ukraine, given their shared history of WWII and communism. In addition to situating these graphic narratives in their national and subnational contexts, Comics of the New Europepays particular attention to transnational connections along the common themes of nostalgia, memoir, and life under communism. The essays offer insights into a new generation of European cartoonists that looks forward, inspired and informed by traditions from Franco-Belgian and American comics, and back, as they use the medium of comics to reexamine and reevaluate not only their national pasts and respective comics traditions but also their own post-1989 identities and experiences.
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