Postcolonialism and Migration in French Comics

Mark McKinney is Professor of French at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, USA. He has written 'The Colonial Heritage of French Comics' (Liverpool University Press, 2011) and 'Redrawing French Empire in Comics' (2013). He coedited 'Post-Colonial Cultures in France' (Routledge, 1997) with Alec G. Hargreaves. He edited 'History and Politics in French-Language Comics and Graphic Novels' (University Press of Mississippi, 2008). He cofounded and coedited the journal 'European Comic Art' with Laurence Grove and Ann Miller.

Extremely well researched and well explained, alternating explanation of concepts and application of these concepts to many diverse examples, the volume mixes some well-known authors with others much less famous (and actually many out of print) and still others simply unknown (at least new to me). This is the best book one can write about comics. [...] The cherry on the French cake [or if you don’t like cakes, the dressing on the fresh mixed salad]: as usual, this publisher (Leuven U.P.) provides high quality paper and binding, and beautiful reproductions of pictures, some in color, and in this case also a full precise index of 20p. and an extraordinary rich and diverse bibliography of 35p. What else can a humanist fan scholar could wish for? Again, this is the type of books that we see once a decade.Christian Reyns-Chikuma, IMAGE [&] NARRATIVE Vol. 22, No.3 (2021)

• Acknowledgments Note on translations and terminology 1. Introduction: three postcolonial turning points in French comics 2. Postcolonialism and migration in comics after “Cauchemar blanc” 3. Farid Boudjellal’s realist comics 4. The voyage in through Baru’s pastiches 5. “Citadel culture” in French comics 6. Comics from the far right through the 1990s 7. Comics from the far right from the 2000s to the present 8. Avant-gardism, migration and postcolonialism in Alagbé’s comics 9. Across the affrontier with Abirached 10. Sans-papiers in comics 11. Coda: postcolonialism and beyond Works cited Index