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McKinney, Mark. "The Frontier and the Affrontier: French-Language Algerian Comics and Cartoons Confront the Nation." European Comic Art 1. (2008): 175–200. Added by: joachim (8/4/09, 12:32 AM) Last edited by: joachim (9/30/10, 12:47 AM) |
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| Resource type: Journal Article Language: en: English Peer reviewed DOI: 10.3828/eca.1.2.6 BibTeX citation key: McKinney2008d Email resource to friend View all bibliographic details  |
Categories: General Keywords: Africa, Algeria, France, Identity, Nationalism, Politics Creators: McKinney Collection: European Comic Art |
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Algerian and Algerian-French cartoonists have often thematised national identity in their art. Their interest in this subject has created problems for them when they have crossed the ‘affrontier’, a line of demarcation whose nature and place have been determined to a considerable degree by the military regime. The analysis of some of its key dimensions – political, religious, spatial, historical and symbolic – allows us to understand how it operates. By studying striking examples of cartoons and comics, their production and consumption, we can come to an understanding of how the affrontier has functioned since 1962, when Algeria gained its independence. The year 1988, when the Algerian regime killed and tortured hundreds of young rioters, stands out as a watershed, because cartoonists then began to redefine their relationship to the military regime, the nation and the affrontier.
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