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Podcast: New Books in Art
Episode: Mark McKinney, "Postcolonialism and Migration in French Comics" (Leuven UP, 2021)
Description: Regarded as the â9th Artâ, French bande desinĂ©e have a much longer history of serious socio-political engagement than American comics. Since the Algerian War (1954â62), postcolonialism, migration, anti-racism are major themes in francophone comics. Mark McKinneyâs newest book studies the genre from the formal dismantling of the French colonial empire in 1962 up to the present. Postcolonialism and Migration in French Comics (Leuven UP, 2021) analyses comics representing a gamut of perspectives on immigration and postcolonial ethnic minorities, ranging from staunch defense to violent rejection. Individual chapters are dedicated to specific artists, artistic collectives, comics, or themes, including avant-gardism, undocumented migrants in c...