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Filc, Dani. "Tintin and Corto Maltese: The European Adventurer Meets the Colonial Other." European Comic Art 13. (2020): 95–121. 
Added by: joachim (6/6/20, 5:38 PM)   
Resource type: Journal Article
Language: en: English
Peer reviewed
DOI: 10.3167/eca.2020.130106
BibTeX citation key: Filc2020
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Categories: General
Keywords: "Corto Maltese", "Tintin", Adventure comics, Belgium, Colonialism, Hergé, Italy, Pratt. Hugo, Remi. Georges
Creators: Filc
Collection: European Comic Art
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Abstract
The Tintin and Corto Maltese series are among the most famous European adventure comics. The adventure genre – both in novels and comics – is deeply related to nineteenth-century colonialism. This article compares the ways in which colonialism and the relationship to the colonial Other appear in Hergé’s and Pratt’s creations, focusing on Tintin and Corto Maltese’s adventures in Africa and Latin America. The comparison between Tintin and Corto shows that although Hergé developed an ambivalent view of European colonialism, Eurocentrism is constant through all his work. Pratt’s Corto, in contrast, shows a more critical, though ambiguous, view of colonialism, and a more egalitarian, though also ambivalent, conceptualisation of the colonial Other.
  
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