Comics Studies
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Herausgegeben von:
Jaqueline Berndt
This series expands the field of comics studies with research from around the world and across disciplines. It explores the aesthetics, histories, and practices of comics in order to build bridges between different academic traditions engaged in the study of all forms of sequential art and narrative. What makes a comic book? What are the effects of lines, panels, and page-layouts? How are comics produced, distributed, and read? The monographs and edited volumes in the series address such questions about the form from a variety of perspectives. We aim to further the emerging global discourse on comics by making truly innovative work in the field accessible to a broader community of critics and scholars. All volumes in the series are published in English and are peer-reviewed.
Series Editors: Jaqueline Berndt, Patrick Noonan, Karin Kukkonen, Stephan Packard
Advisory Board:
Daniele Barbieri (Academy of Fine Arts of Bologna)
Nandini Chandra (University of Hawaii)
Karl Ian U. Cheng Chua (University of the Philippines, Diliman, Asian Center)
Felix Giesa (Goethe University Frankfurt)
Felipe Gomez (Carnegie Mellon University)
Jan-Noël Thon (University of Osnabrück)
Anne Magnussen (University of Southern Denmark)
Christina Meyer (TU Braunschweig)
Ann Miller (University of Leicester)
Katalin Orbán (Eötvös Loránd University)
Wendy Wong (York University)
Call for Manuskripts:
https://blog.degruyter.com/call-for-manuscripts-comics-studies-aesthetics-histories-and-practices/
While comics published in twentieth-century China have enjoyed extensive coverage, this volume showcases recent works from other locations in Asia and beyond: Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Italy and the US. Thus, its Sinophone framing de-centers the hegemony of China in Chinese studies, and that of Japanese manga in comics studies. Non-mangaesque productions take center stage, and a chapter on comics-related cultural exchange with Japan covers reception of Taiwanese comics.
Chapter contributors explore key themes in Sinophone studies: identity-construction and (national or medium-specific) history-writing through positive or negative connections with China as a cultural and political center, contingent on local colonial legacies, nationalist projects and other cultural factors.
At the same time, this volume underscores transnational connections, central to comics throughout this medium’s history, and recent global trends shaping media and cultural production: state support and soft power, the neoliberal emphasis on creativity and self-branding, the rise of digital platforms. Taiwan constitutes a productive site for studying such issues, hence its centrality to this project.
Though Scandinavian comics evolved through exchange with international networks and communities, they have a rich tradition in their own right: they have their own distinctive themes, styles and societal functions, which are in turn shaped by the social, political, economic and aesthetic realities in which they emerged. This collection spotlights not only Scandinavian comics production, but also Scandinavian comics research. It sheds light on different areas of the Scandinavian comics landscape: the relationship between Scandinavian comics and comics from other parts of the world; the formation of comics research as a discipline in Scandinavia and its relation to more traditional academic disciplines; the political significance and potential of comics in the Scandinavian context, and finally, the comics practices that are unique to Scandinavia. By presenting research on Scandinavian comics in English, this collection aims to bring the genre to the attention of an international research community, and to showcase some of the most exciting comics practitioners and researchers Europe’s North has to offer.
