Overview

This book takes an interdisciplinary and diverse critical look at the work of comic artist Ilan Manouach, situating it within the avant-garde movement more broadly. An international team of authors engages with the topic from diverse theoretical approaches, from traditional narratology and aesthetic close readings of some of Manouach's books, engaging with comics' own distinctive history, modes of production, circulation and reception, to perspectives from disability studies, post-colonial studies, technological criticism, media ecology, ontography, posthumanist philosophy, and issues of materiality and media specificity. This innovative and timely volume will interest students and scholars of comic studies, media studies, media ecology, literature, cultural studies, and visual studies.

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Author:   Pedro Moura
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.560kg
ISBN:  

9781032399713

ISBN 10:   1032399716
Pages:   248
Publication Date:   08 September 2023
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Foreword Introduction: A Critical Situatedness of Comics Part 1: Textuality and Surfaces 1. Katz, Noirs & Tintin akei Kongo: Ilan Manouach’s Critical Manifesto 2. Ilan Manouach’s Abrégé de bande dessinée franco-belge: Ontography and the Past and Future of Stories 3. Whitewashing the Smudge: The Politics of Erasure and Unreadability in Ilan Manouach's Cascao 4. The Void that Challenged Narrative: A Poetics of Emptiness in Riki Fermier 5. Replacing and Reorganizing: A Discursive Arc about Cultural Production Part 2: Reading Practices 6. Reading Childly: Riki Fermier and Cascao 7. Disability, Comics and the Shapereader 8. Shapereader and the Limits of Touch 9. Blanco: On Blank and Illegible Books Part 3: Rethinking the Pasts and the Futures of Comics 10. Manouach Contrabandier: Countering Practices to Industrial Publishing. 11. Haunted by Tradition: Ilan Manouach and the Ghosts of BD Past 12. [CoCo]: Conceptual Comics and Online Archives 13. Can Comics Think? Automation on The Cubicle Island 14. Ilan Manouach: The Comic Book Hacker Afterword: Like a Robot Bereft of Its Function

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Pedro Moura is an independent scholar, teacher, and comics scriptwriter from Lisbon, Portugal. He holds a PhD from the University of Lisbon and KU Leuven.

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