The Algerian War in French-Language Comics: Postcolonial Memory, History, and Subjectivity

by Jennifer Howell

Overview

This book analyzes representations of the Algerian War in French-language comics published since 1982. Throughout this book, Howell investigates the ways in which marginalized memory communities resist, rewrite, and/or repair institutionalized history in popular culture.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781498516082
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	04/14/2017
Series:	After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.55(d)

About the Author

Jennifer Howell is assistant professor of French at Illinois State University.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Chronology of the Algerian War Introduction: The Algerian War and French Comics One “De case en classe”: Teaching the Algerian War Two Historical Narrative, French Colonial Culture, and Comics Three Packaging History for Mass Consumption Four Atrocity Photographs and Reporting War Five Self, Other, and Self-Othering Six Mapping Colonial Landscapes Seven French Comics as Postmemory Conclusion: The Postcolonial Turn in Teaching, Remembering, and Cartooning Bibliography Index About the Author

Editorial Reviews

[T]his is a compelling book about the politics of memory and the visual practices of France’s graphic novels. Jennifer Howell provides a rich case study of French comics about the Algerian War that is both historically resonant and immediate in its contemporary applicability.

European Comic Art

Jennifer Howell displays her remarkable expertise in The Algerian War in French-Language Comics: PostcolonialMemory, History, and Subjectivity, a monograph where the interdisciplinary nature of French cultural studies is beautifully illustrated. Howell’s work shows how French-language comics about the Algerian War have both shaped and reinterpreted historical memories and consequently affected France’s relationship to its colonial past as well as its legacy in the present. As such, her book not only engages with colonial and postcolonial studies, but also with history, memory and postmemory.

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