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Vessels, Joel E. Drawing France: French Comics and the Republic. Jackson: Univ. Press of Mississippi, 2010. 
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Resource type: Book
Language: en: English
DOI: 10.14325/mississippi/9781604734447.001.0001
ID no. (ISBN etc.): 978-1-60473-444-7
BibTeX citation key: Vessels2010
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Categories: General
Keywords: France, Historical account
Creators: Vessels
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi (Jackson)
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Abstract
In France, Belgium, and other Francophone countries, comic strips—called bande dessinée or “BD” in French—have long been considered a major art form capable of addressing a host of contemporary issues. Among Frenchspeaking intelligentsia, graphic narratives were deemed worthy of canonization and critical study decades before the academy and the press in the United States embraced comics.
The place that BD holds today, however, belies the contentious political route the art form has traveled. In Drawing France: French Comics and the Republic, author Joel E. Vessels examines the trek of BD from its being considered a fomenter of rebellion, to a medium suitable only for semi-literates, to an impediment to education, and most recently to an art capable of addressing social concerns in mainstream culture.
In the mid-1800s, alarmists feared political caricatures might incite the ire of an illiterate working class. To counter this notion, proponents yoked the art to a particular articulation of “Frenchness” based on literacy and reason. With the post-World War II economic upswing, French consumers saw BD as a way to navigate the changes brought by modernization. After bande dessinée came to be understood as a compass for the masses, the government, especially François Mitterand's administration, brought comics increasingly into “official” culture. Vessels argues that BD are central to the formation of France's self-image and a self-awareness of what it means to be French.

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Introduction: A Force to Beckon With (3)

1 Stirring up Passions: Politics, Bande Dessinée, and Images in the Nineteenth Century and the Late Third Republic (17)
2 What Your Children Are Reading: Bande Dessinée, Catholics, and Communists (38)
3 Notre Grand-Papa Pétain: The National Revolution and Bande Dessinée in Vichy (74)
4 Vive la France! Now Who Are We?: Reconstruction, Identity, and the 16 July Law (108)
5 The Commission at Work: Saying “Non” to Microcephalic Hercules and Determining What Makes for a Good French BD (143)
6 Culture Becomes Policy: Bande Dessinée as Monumental Architecture (174)

Epilogue: A Sous-Produit Littéraire No Longer (216)

Notes (237)
Bibliography (277)
Index (297)


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