Chapter 8 Resisting Closure: Auto-Representation and Interdependence in the Disability Bande Dessinée

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Figures viii
4. Foreword x
5. Acknowledgements xx
6. Introduction 1
7. PART I: ECOGRAPHIC NARRATIVES AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE
8. Chapter 1 Ecographic Narratives of Resistance and for Liberation: Mines, Nuclear Sites and Factory Farms in Bande Dessinée 19
9. Chapter 2 The Indigenous Taiwanese Environmental Activism of Li-Chin Lin’s Sino-French Graphic Narrative Fudafudak (2017) 36
10. PART II: MOVING BEYOND STEREOTYPES: RETHINKING REPRESENTATIONS OF BLACK FRANCOPHONE PEOPLES AND CULTURES
11. Chapter 3 Resisting Archetypal Images in Alpha: Abidjan to Gare du Nord by Bessora and Barroux 57
12. Chapter 4 Caricaturing Life from the Inside: An Exploration of the Extremes in Aya de Yopougon 72
13. PART III: DRAWING AGAINST THE NORMATIVITY OF KNOWLEDGE AND IDENTITIES
14. Chapter 5 Solidarity, Friendship and Love in the Penal Colony 91
15. Chapter 6 Agnès Maupré’s Le Chevalier d’Éon (2014–15): Reimagining Gender Fluidity in Eighteenth-Century France 107
16. Chapter 7 Negotiating Transnational Masculinity in Riad Sattouf’s L’Arabe du futur 126
17. Chapter 8 Resisting Closure: Auto-Representation and Interdependence in the Disability Bande Dessinée 144
18. Chapter 9 Theorising Mauritian Bandes Dessinées as a Pluriversal Praxis 160
19. PART IV: DRAWING MEMORIES OF WAR AND REVOLUTION
20. Chapter 10 Post-Revolutionary Tunisia in Comics and Cartooning 175
21. Chapter 11 War Trauma and the ‘Drive for Life’ in Mazen Kerbaj’s Lettre à la mère (2013) 195
22. Chapter 12 Redrawing the Counter-Archive: Visual Memory, Trauma and Resistance in the Graphic Novels Quitter Saigon (2010) and Descente en enfer (2005) 209
23. Chapter 13 The Independence Eleven: Football, Memory and Resistance in the Algerian Revolution 228
24. PART V: COLONIAL LEGACIES OF THE FRENCH EMPIRE AND CONTEMPORARY CHALLENGES OF THE FRENCH NATION
25. Chapter 14 Framing France in the Indian Ocean: Of Shipwrecks and Fertile Women 247
26. Chapter 15 Remediating the Colonial Catastrophe in Lucas Vallerie’s Cyparis, le prisonnier de Saint-Pierre (2017) 262
27. Chapter 16 Producing Images of Deserted Memories: The Making of an Alternative Archive around ‘the Children of Creuse’ 281
28. Notes on Contributors 296
29. Index 301