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McKinney, Mark. Redrawing French Empire in Comics. Studies in Comics and Cartoons. Columbus: Ohio State Univ. Press, 2013. 
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Resource type: Book
Language: en: English
ID no. (ISBN etc.): 978-0-8142-1220-2
BibTeX citation key: McKinney2013
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Categories: General
Keywords: Africa, Algeria, Asia, Colonialism, France, History comics, Politics, War
Creators: McKinney
Publisher: Ohio State Univ. Press (Columbus)
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Abstract
Redrawing French Empire in Comics by Mark McKinney investigates how comics have represented the colonization and liberation of Algeria and Indochina. It focuses on the conquest and colonization of Algeria (from 1830), the French war in Indochina (1946–1954), and the Algerian War (1954–1962). Imperialism and colonialism already featured prominently in nineteenth-century French-language comics and cartoons by Töpffer, Cham, and Petit. As society has evolved, so has the popular representation of those historical forces. French torture of Algerians during the Algerian War, once taboo, now features prominently in comics, especially since 2000, when debate on the subject was reignited in the media and the courts. The increasingly explicit and spectacular treatment in comics of the more violent and lurid aspects of colonial history and ideology is partly due to the post-1968 growth of an adult comics production and market. For example, the appearance of erotic and exotic, feminized images of Indochina in French comics in the 1980s indicated that colonial nostalgia for French Indochina had become fashionable in popular culture. Redrawing French Empire in Comics shows how contemporary cartoonists such as Alagbé, Baloup, Boudjellal, Ferrandez, and Sfar have staked out different, sometimes conflicting, positions on French colonial history.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations (vii)
Acknowledgments (ix)

1. Redrawing French Empire in Comics: An Introduction (1)
2. Redrawing Colonial Algeria (35)
3. The Fall of French Indochina (84)
4. The Algerian War and Its Aftermath (145)
5. The Voyage Out and the Voyage In (211)

Notes (225)
Works Cited (244)
Index (267)


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