Comics of the New Europe

Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-94-6270-212-7
Verlag: Leuven University Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 7, 290 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 680 g

Reihe: Studies in European Comics and Graphic Novels

A new generation of European cartoonists

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, Yugoslavia, and Ukraine, given their shared history of WWII and communism. In addition to situating these graphic narratives in their national and subnational contexts, Comics of the New Europe pays particular attention to transnational connections along the common themes of nostalgia, memoir, and life under communism. The essays offer insights into a new generation of European cartoonists that looks forward, inspired and informed by traditions from Franco-Belgian and American comics, and back, as they use the medium of comics to reexamine and reevaluate not only their national pasts and respective comics traditions but also their own post-1989 identities and experiences.

Contributors: Max Bledstein (University of Winnipeg), Dragana Obradovic (University of Toronto), Aleksandra Sekulic (University of Arts in Belgrade), Pavel Korínek (Institute of Czech Literature, Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague), Martin Foret (Palacký University), Michael Scholz (Uppsala University), Sean Eedy (Carleton University), Elizabeth Nijdam (University of British Columbia), Ewa Stanczyk (University of Amsterdam), Eszter Szép (Eötvös Loránd University)

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In this video Martha Kuhlman discusses various aspects of the book 'Comics of the New Europe', focusing in particular on Czech authors.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kuhlman, Martha

Alaniz, José

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Design Comics & Cartoons (Design)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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 Milošev Wostok

Aleksandra Sekulic

Part 2: Czechoslovakia/the Czech Republic

Facets of Nostalgia: Text-centric Longing in
Comics and Graphic Novels by Pavel Cech

Pavel Korínek

The Avant-Garde Aesthetic of Vojtech Mašek

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 Stanczyk

Igor Baranko and National Precarity in Post-Soviet
Ukrainian Comics

José Alaniz

The Autobiographical
Mode in Post-Communist Romanian Comics:

Everyday Life in Brynjar Åbel Bandlien’s Strîmb Living
and Andreea Chirica’s The Year of the
Pioneer

Mihaela Precup

Avatars and Iteration in Contemporary Hungarian
Autobiographical Comics

Eszter Szép

Acknowledgments

About the authors

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Kuhlman, Martha
Martha Kuhlman is professor of Comparative Literature in the Department of English and Cultural Studies at Bryant University.

Alaniz, José
José Alaniz is professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and in the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Washington, Seattle.