McKinney M. History and Politics in French-Language Comics and Graphic Novels

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History and Politics

in French-Language

Comics

and Graphic Novels

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History and Politics

in French-Language

Comics

and Graphic Novels

University Press of MississiPPi / Jackson

edited by

Mark Mckinney

Library of congress cataloging-in-Publication Data

History and politics in french-language comics and

graphic novels / edited by Mark Mckinney.

p. cm.

Papers from the conference entitled History and

Politics in

french-language comics held at Miami

University, oxford, ohio, nov. 11–13, 2004.

includes bibliographical references and index.

isBn 978-1-60473-004-3 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. comic

books, strips, etc.—europe, french-speaking—History

and criticism. 2. History in literature. 3. Politics in lit-

ature. 4. History in art. 5. Politics in art. i. Mckinney,

Mark, 1961–

n6790.e9H57 2008

741.5’3580917541—dc22

2007045711

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∞

à Louise,

qui a appris à lire grâce à Astérix et aux Barbapapa,

dans sa langue maternelle and her father tongue,

et qui vient de terminer son premier stage

de dessinatrice de bandes dessinées

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Contents

xi Editor’s Acknowledgments

xiii French-Language Comics Terminology and Referencing

3 cHaPter one

Representations of History and Politics in French-Language

Comics and Graphic Novels: An Introduction

—Mark McKinney

Part One

History, Politics, and the Bande dessinée Tradition

27 cHaPter two

Trapped in the Past: Anti-Semitism in Hergé’s Flight 714

—Hugo Frey

44 cHaPter tHree

Re-imaging Heroes / Rewriting History: The Pictures and Texts

in Children’s Newspapers in France, 1939–45

—Clare Tufts

69 cHaPter foUr

The Concept of “Patrimoine” in Contemporary Franco-Belgian

Comics Production

—Bart Beaty

viii

Contents

Part Two

Political Reportage and Globalism in Bandes dessinées

97 cHaPter five

Citizenship and City Spaces: Bande dessinée as Reportage

—Ann Miller

117 cHaPter six

Games Without Frontiers: The Representation of Politics

and the Politics of Representation in Schuiten and Peeters’s

La frontière invisible

—Fabrice Leroy

Part Three

Facing Colonialism and Imperialism in Bandes dessinées

139 cHaPter seven

The Algerian War in Road to America (Baru, Thévenet,

and Ledran)

—Mark McKinney

166 cHaPter eigHt

The Congo Drawn in Belgium

—Pascal Lef èvre

186 cHaPter nine

Distractions from History: Redrawing Ethnic Trajectories in

New Caledonia

—Amanda Macdonald

212 cHaPter ten

Textual Absence, Textual Color: A Journey Through Memory—

Cosey’s Saigon-Hanoi

—Cécile Vernier Danehy

Contents

Part Four

A French Cartoonist’s Perspective on the Working Class and

Bandes dessinées

239 cHaPter eLeven

The Working Class and Comics: A French Cartoonist’s

Perspective

—Baru

259 Bibliography

277 Contributors

281 Index