Comics of the New Europe reflections and intersections
"Bringing together the work of an array of North American and European scholars, this collection highlights a previously unexamined area within global comics studies. It analyses comics from countries formerly behind the Iron Curtain like East Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania,...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Leuven, Belgium
Leuven University Press
[2020], 2020
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| Series: | Studies in European comics and graphic novels
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| Collection: | JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- General introduction: comics of the "new" Europe / Martha Kuhlman, José Alaniz
- Part 1. The former Yugoslav states
- Un-drawn experience: visualizing trauma in Aleksandar Zograf's Regards from Serbia / Max Bledstein
- Filial estrangement and figurative mourning in the work of Nina Bunjevac / Dragana Obradovic
- Reality check through the historical avant-garde: Danilo Milosev Wostok / Aleksandra Sekulic
- Part 2. Czechoslovakia/the Czech Republic
- Facets of nostalgia: text-centric longing in comics and graphic novels by Pavel Cech / Pavel Korinek
- The avant-garde aesthetic of Vojtech Masek / Martha Kuhlman
- Regardless of context: graphic novels with the faceless (and homelandless) hero of Branko Jelinek / Martin Foret
- Part 3. Germany
- Co-opting childhood and obscuring ideology in Mosaik von Hannes Hegen, 1959-1974 / Sean Eedy
- Images of spies and counter spies in East German comics / Michael F. Scholz
- Towards a graphic historicity: authenticity and photography in the German graphic novel / Elizabeth "Biz" Nijdam
- Part 4. Poland, Ukraine, Romania, Hungary
- Women, feminism and Polish comic books: Fras/Hagedorn's Totalnie nie nostalgia / Ewa Staficzyk
- Igor Baranko and national precarity in post-Soviet Ukrainian comics / Jose Alaniz
- The autobiographical mode in post-communist Romanian comics: everyday life in Brynjar Abel Bandlien's Strimb living and Andreea Chirica's The year of the pioneer / Mihaela Precup
- Avatars and iteration in contemporary Hungarian autobiographical comics / Eszter Szep