Hodapp, James , ed. Graphic Novels and Comics as World Literature. New York,: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022.

Literatures as World Literature.

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DOI: 10.5040/9781501373442
ISBN: 978-1-5013-7341-1(hardback), 978-1-5013-7343-5(epdf),
978-1-5013-7342-8(epub), 978-1-5013-7344-2(xml)
Date of 2022
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Published Online: 2022-03-28
Place of New York,
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Printer/Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Series Title: Literatures as World Literature
Edition: First edition
Identifier: b-9781501373442

BOOK SUMMARY / ABSTRACT

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
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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.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Front matter
Title Pages i–vi
Dedication vii–viii
Contents ix
Figures x–xii
Introduction: Global South Comics on Their Own Terms 1–10
Pages of Exception: Graphic Reportage as World Literature 11–32
Latin America’s Tinta Femenina and Its Place in Graphic “World Literature” 33–54
An Alternative Worldliness: Verbal and Visual Experimentations in Fī shiqqat bāb el-loq (The Apartment in Bab El-
Louk) 55–74
Boys Love in Latin America: The Migration of Aesthetics in Contemporary Graphic Narrative 75–96
A Sociological Approach to Francophone African Comics (1978–2016) 97–122
Born in the “World”: Leila Abdelrazaq’s Writing and Art as World Literature 123–144
Utopias Gone Wrong: Representing the Dystopic Urban in the Indian Graphic Narrative 145–166
Opening Up a World and the Temporal–Normative Dimension: Keum Suk Gendry-Kim’s Grass as World Literature
167–186
Between the Saltwater and the Desert: Indigenous Australian Tales from the Margins 187–212
A Case Study of Sita’s Ramayana, Diasporic Negotiations, COVID-19, and the Television Serial Ramayana 213–228
Wakanda as a Sustainable Smart Society: Africanfuturism in Marvel’s Black Panther 229–242
Neoliberal Ideologies in Menggapai Bintang (Reach for the Stars) 243–256
“LONG LIVE the Waste!”: Junk Food Bites Back in Jung’s Approved for Adoption 257–268
Back matter
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Contributors 269–272