Identity and History in Non-Anglophone Comics

Harriet E.H. Earle is a senior lecturer in English at Sheffield Hallam University and research fellow at the Centre for War, Atrocity, and Genocide at the University of Nipissing. She is the author of Comics, Trauma, and the New Art of War (2017) and Comics: An Introduction (2020) and the series editor of Global Perspectives in Comics Studies. She also sits on the editorial board of the Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics.Martin Lund is senior lecturer in religious studies at the Department of Society, Culture and Identity at Malmö University, Sweden. He is the author of Re-Constructing the Man of Steel: Superman 1938–1941, Jewish American History, and the Invention of the Jewish–Comics Connection (2016) and co-editor of Muslim Superheroes: Comics, Islam, and Representation (2017, with A. David Lewis) and Unstable Masks: Whiteness and American Superhero Comics (2020, with Sean Guynes). His research interests include the intersections of religions and comics, comics and identity, and comics and urban life. He is also co-editor of the series Encapsulations: Critical Comics Studies (with Julia Round).

• List of Figures List of Contributors 1 Introduction Harriet E.H. Earle and Martin LundPART 1Identities 2 Outwitting the Flemish Past: Willy Vandersteen’s Dealing with Brabant Underdogs in Suske en Wiske’s ‘Het Spaanse spook’ (1948–1950) Michel De Dobbeleer3 Displacement, Space, and Questions of Belonging: German and Colombian Graphic Novels in Dialogue Felipe Gomez and Gabi Maier4 Visual Aspects of Modern Greek Identity Ioanna Papaki5 Mexico’s Conquest, Independence, and Revolution According to Rius Annick PellegrinPART 2Radicalisms 6 Socialist Swedish Comics: Anticapitalism, International Solidarity and Whiteness in Johan Vilde and The Phantom Robert Aman7 Abandoning Ideals and Producing Graphic Disillusionment in Suomen suurin kommunisti Oskari Rantala8 Capitalism, Freedom, Future: Picture of Polish Transformation in the Graphic Novel Osiedle Swoboda Wojciech Lewandowski9 Dissent and Resistance in Contemporary Portuguese Comics: The Case of Buraco #4 and Porto’s Es.Col.A. Movement Pedro MouraPART 3Genders 10 How to Discuss Sexual Identity, Minority Rights, and Society in Chile?: The Case of Katherine Supnem’s ‘Underground’ Comics Mario Faust-Scalisi11 Questioning the Inescapable Male Gaze in Altarriba and Kim’s El arte de volar and El ala rota Mikel Bermello Isusi12 The Pirate, the Queen, and the Handkerchief: Grainne Mhaol, an Irishwoman among Men Christina M. KnopfPART 4Historiographics 13 Expressions of Subjectivity: Recent Historical Events Represented in Twenty-First-Century Chilean Autobiographical Comics Paloma Dominguez Jeria and Mariana Munoz14 Punťa the Dog Goes to the Second Italo-Abyssinian War: Czech, Polish, and American Comic Heroes in the Real- World Conflict of 1935–1936 Lucie Kořinkova and Pavel KořinekIndex