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Graphic Narratives of Resistance
Advocating for Representation and Social Justice in French-language Bandes Dessinées
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Edited by:
Jennifer Boum Make
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English
Published/Copyright:
2025
About this book
Examines the political and aesthetic gestures embedded in bandes dessinées and graphic novels in order to question the past and the contemporary realities of the French-speaking world
- Looks at contexts from a large variety of countries of the French-speaking world, including (in alphabetical order) Algeria, Guadeloupe, France, French Guiana, Lebanon, Madagascar, Mauritius, Martinique, Morocco, Reunion Island, Rwanda, Taiwan, The Ivory Coast, and Vietnam
- Provides geographically and historically targeted case-studies that allow the reader to delve into these contexts with critical depth of analysis
- Offers an overview of the evolving role of BD as a reflective tool to question past or current cultural and socio-political realities;
- Interprets historical, social, political, and cultural contexts through the means of visual literary analysis
- Proposes pedagogical guidelines on each bande dessinée and the themes they tackle to maximise student engagement
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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List of Figures
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Foreword
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Acknowledgements
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Introduction
1 - PART I: ECOGRAPHIC NARRATIVES AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE
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Chapter 1 Ecographic Narratives of Resistance and for Liberation: Mines, Nuclear Sites and Factory Farms in Bande Dessinée
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Chapter 2 The Indigenous Taiwanese Environmental Activism of Li-Chin Lin’s Sino-French Graphic Narrative Fudafudak (2017)
36 - PART II: MOVING BEYOND STEREOTYPES: RETHINKING REPRESENTATIONS OF BLACK FRANCOPHONE PEOPLES AND CULTURES
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Chapter 3 Resisting Archetypal Images in Alpha: Abidjan to Gare du Nord by Bessora and Barroux
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Chapter 4 Caricaturing Life from the Inside: An Exploration of the Extremes in Aya de Yopougon
72 - PART III: DRAWING AGAINST THE NORMATIVITY OF KNOWLEDGE AND IDENTITIES
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Chapter 5 Solidarity, Friendship and Love in the Penal Colony
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Chapter 6 Agnès Maupré’s Le Chevalier d’Éon (2014–15): Reimagining Gender Fluidity in Eighteenth-Century France
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Chapter 7 Negotiating Transnational Masculinity in Riad Sattouf’s L’Arabe du futur
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Chapter 8 Resisting Closure: Auto-Representation and Interdependence in the Disability Bande Dessinée
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Chapter 9 Theorising Mauritian Bandes Dessinées as a Pluriversal Praxis
160 - PART IV: DRAWING MEMORIES OF WAR AND REVOLUTION
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Chapter 10 Post-Revolutionary Tunisia in Comics and Cartooning
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Chapter 11 War Trauma and the ‘Drive for Life’ in Mazen Kerbaj’s Lettre à la mère (2013)
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Chapter 12 Redrawing the Counter-Archive: Visual Memory, Trauma and Resistance in the Graphic Novels Quitter Saigon (2010) and Descente en enfer (2005)
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Chapter 13 The Independence Eleven: Football, Memory and Resistance in the Algerian Revolution
228 - PART V: COLONIAL LEGACIES OF THE FRENCH EMPIRE AND CONTEMPORARY CHALLENGES OF THE FRENCH NATION
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Chapter 14 Framing France in the Indian Ocean: Of Shipwrecks and Fertile Women
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Chapter 15 Remediating the Colonial Catastrophe in Lucas Vallerie’s Cyparis, le prisonnier de Saint-Pierre (2017)
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Chapter 16 Producing Images of Deserted Memories: The Making of an Alternative Archive around ‘the Children of Creuse’
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Notes on Contributors
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Index
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Publishing information
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
July 21, 2025
eBook ISBN:
9781399529310
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Main content:
328
eBook ISBN:
9781399529310
Keywords for this book
Graphic novels; Bande Dessinée; memory; Francophone literature; pedagogy; social justice; resistance; representation
Audience(s) for this book
For universities and colleges of further and higher education
