Awards
- Winner of Honorable mention for the Comics Studies Society Prize for Edited Book Collection 2021
Overview
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 Obradović (University of Toronto), Aleksandra Sekulić (University of Arts in Belgrade), Pavel Kořínek (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 Stańczyk (University of Amsterdam), Eszter Szép (Eötvös Loránd University) This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content). In this video Martha Kuhlman discusses various aspects of the book 'Comics of the New Europe', focusing in particular on Czech authors.
Full Product Details
Author: Martha Kuhlman ,
Jose Alaniz
Publisher: Leuven University Press
Imprint: Leuven University Press
Volume: 7
Dimensions:
Width: 17.00cm
, Height: 2.50cm
, Length: 23.00cm
Weight: 0.680kg
ISBN: 9789462702127
ISBN 10: 9462702128
Pages: 290
Publication Date: 21 April 2020
Audience:
College/higher education
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
Carefully edited by two specialists of comics culture and Slavic culture with a longtime interest in the margins of Western culture, this collection on the comics culture of Central and Eastern Europe (that is the countries that have progressively joined the EU after the fall of the Berlin Wall) is much more than an eye-opener. The book does not only disclose a wide range of a virtually “unknown” production (and why not confess that I felt ashamed of my own ignorance as a European scholar after reading Comics of the New Europe?), it also offers a new insight of the very meaning of making and reading comics in cultural, economic, political and ideological contexts that are sometimes very different from what we take for granted. Jan Baetens, IMAGE [&] NARRATIVE, Vol. 22, No.1 (2021) Altogether, this volume represents a very welcome and stimulating introduction to comics production in a region that has been overlooked by critics. [...] this collection does represent an intriguing and novel exploration of new areas of study for comics scholarship. The introduction makes clear that the editors “consider this book an open invitation for further research” (13). It can only be hoped that their call will find receptive ears, and that some at least of the obviously worthwhile works they discuss will also find suitable publishers in the “old” Europe or North America.Vittorio Frigerio, Paradoxa, No. 32, 2021
"Altogether, this volume represents a very welcome and stimulating introduction to comics production in a region that has been overlooked by critics. [...] this collection does represent an intriguing and novel exploration of new areas of study for comics scholarship. The introduction makes clear that the editors ""consider this book an open invitation for further research"" (13). It can only be hoped that their call will find receptive ears, and that some at least of the obviously worthwhile works they discuss will also find suitable publishers in the ""old"" Europe or North America.Vittorio Frigerio, Paradoxa, No. 32, 2021 Carefully edited by two specialists of comics culture and Slavic culture with a longtime interest in the margins of Western culture, this collection on the comics culture of Central and Eastern Europe (that is the countries that have progressively joined the EU after the fall of the Berlin Wall) is much more than an eye-opener. The book does not only disclose a wide range of a virtually ""unknown"" production (and why not confess that I felt ashamed of my own ignorance as a European scholar after reading Comics of the New Europe?), it also offers a new insight of the very meaning of making and reading comics in cultural, economic, political and ideological contexts that are sometimes very different from what we take for granted. Jan Baetens, IMAGE [&] NARRATIVE, Vol. 22, No.1 (2021)"
Author Information
Martha Kuhlman is professor of Comparative Literature in the Department of English and Cultural Studies at Bryant University. 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.
