Comics of the New Europe : Reflections and Intersections

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, Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Yugosl...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Alaniz, José, editor (editor), Kuhlman, Martha, editor
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Leuven, Belgium : Leuven University Press 2022.
Subjects:
Comic books, strips, etc.
Criticism.
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009731763406719
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.

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