Original comics scholarship offering methodologies developed from the histories, artistic traditions, and socio-political contexts of comics and visual cultures from the Global South.
Comics, graphic novels and webtoons are exploding in popularity across the Global South and Majority World(s). Because most of the critical and methodological tools in English-language comics scholarship come from the Global North, such approaches are often imperfectly designed to illuminate Global South/Global Majority specificities, innovations, and achievements. Comics and the Global South brings together original comics scholarship that offers methodologies crafted within the histories, artistic traditions, and social and political realities of the comics and visual cultures in and from the Global South. The contributions make a major breakthrough in our ability to understand comics of the Global South on their own terms.
Introduction
Andrea Aramburú, Dibyadyuti Roy, and Joe Sutliff Sanders
Chapter One. Hong Kong Comics : A Liminal Space Bridging the Global South and the Global North
Kin-Wai Chu
Chapter Two. Digital Dreams and Its Discontents: Piracy and Comics in South America
Amadeo Gandolfo
Chapter Three. Working with the Frames : Retellings and Reconstructions in Indian Graphic Narratives
Amrutha Mohan
Chapter Four. Out of the Frame: The Third Space in Indian Graphic Narratives
Debanjana Nayek
Chapter Five. Deconstructing the “Gutter” : A Decolonial Study of the Journey from Patachitra to Comics in Famine Tales
Rounak Gupta and Partha Bhattacharjee
Chapter Six. Malungas: A Global South Feminist Epistemology in Comics
Letícia Simões
Chapter Seven. Global South Comics and the Crisis of Postcolonial Masculinity : Case Studies from Bangladesh and India
Dibyadyuti Roy and Swarnima Banerjee
Chapter Eight. The Upper and Lower Jaws
Zak Waipara
Chapter Nine. Towards Indomanga: ONJ Mangaesque Narratives from India
Ananya Saha
Chapter Ten. Drawing Slavery “With and Against the Archive” in Jesús Cossio’s Joaquín Jayme
Andrea Aramburú
Chapter Eleven. Birthing Beyond Borders: The Role of Comics in Dadaab Refugee Camps
Caroline Bagelman, Jen Bagelman, and Josephine Gitome