Graphic Novels and Comics as World Literature (Literatures as World Literature)

Graphic narratives are one of the world's great art forms, but graphic novels and comics from Europe and the United States dominate scholarly conversations about them. Building upon the little extant scholarship on graphic narratives from the Global South, this collection moves beyond a narrow Western approach to this quickly expanding field. By focusing on texts from the Middle East, Africa, Latin America, and Asia, these essays expand the study of graphic narratives to a global scale. Graphic Novels and Comics as World Literature is also interested in how these texts engage with, fit in with, or complicate notions of World Literature. The larger theoretical framework of World Literature is joined with the postcolonial, decolonial, Global South, and similar approaches that argue explicitly or implicitly for the viability of non-Western graphic narratives on their own terms. Ultimately, this collection explores the ways that the unique formal qualities of graphic narratives from the Global South intersect with issues facing the study of international literatures, such as translation, commodification, circulation, Orientalism, and many others. Cover Contents List of Figures Introduction: Global South Comics on Their Own Terms James Hodapp 1 Pages of Exception: Graphic Reportage as World Literature Dominic Davies 2 Latin America’s Tinta Femenina and Its Place in Graphic “World Literature” Jasmin Wrobel 3 An Alternative Worldliness: Verbal and Visual Experimentations in Fī shiqqat bāb el-loq (The Apartment in Bab El-Louk) Dima Nasser 4 Boys Love in Latin America: The Migration of Aesthetics in Contemporary Graphic Narrative Camila Gutiérrez 5 A Sociological Approach to Francophone African Comics (1978–2016) Sandra Federici 6 Born in the “World”: Leila Abdelrazaq’s Writing and Art as World Literature Allison Blecker 7 Utopias Gone Wrong: Representing the Dystopic Urban in the Indian Graphic Narrative Debadrita Chakraborty 8 Opening Up a World and the Temporal–Normative Dimension: Keum Suk Gendry-Kim’s Grass as World Literature Jin Lee 9 Between the Saltwater and the Desert: Indigenous Australian Tales from the Margins Catherine Sly 10 A Case Study of Sita’s Ramayana, Diasporic Negotiations, COVID-19, and the Television Serial Ramayana Shilpa Daithota Bhat 11 Wakanda as a Sustainable Smart Society: Africanfuturism in Marvel’s Black Panther Jana Fedtke 12 Neoliberal Ideologies in Menggapai Bintang (Reach for the Stars) Mohd Muzhafar Idrus, Habibah Ismail and Hazlina Abdullah 13 “Long Live the Waste!”: Junk Food Bites Back in Jung’s Approved for Adoption Sheng-mei Ma Notes on Contributors Index "Building upon the little extant scholarship on graphic narratives from the Global South, this collection moves beyond a Western approach to this quickly expanding field. By focussing on graphic novels and comics from the Middle East, Africa, Latin America and Asia, these essays expand the study of graphic narratives to a global scale. Contributors also explore how these graphic texts engage with, fit in with or complicate notions of World Literature, such as translation, commodification, circulation and Orientalism. The larger theoretical framework of World Literature is joined with the postcolonial, decolonial, Global South and similar approaches that argue explicitly or implicitly for the viability of non-Western graphic narratives on their own terms"-- Provided by publisher