Graphic Novels and Comics as World Literature

James Hodapp is Assistant Professor of English at Northwestern University in Qatar, and editor of Afropolitan Literature as World Literature (Bloomsbury, 2020).

List of Figures
Introduction: Global South Comics on Their Own Terms
James Hodapp, Northwestern University, Qatar
1. Pages of Exception: Graphic Reportage as World Literature
Dominic Davies, City University London, UK
2. Latin America’s Tinta Femenina and Its Place in Graphic "World Literature"
Jasmin Wrobel, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
3. An Alternative Worldliness: Verbal and Visual Experimentations in Fi shiqqat bab el-loq (The Apartment in Bab El-Louk)
Dima Nasser, Brown University, USA
4. Boys Love in Latin America: The Migration of Aesthetics in Contemporary Graphic Narrative
Camila Gutiérrez, Pennsylvania State University, USA
5. A Sociological Approach to Francophone African Comics (1978-2016)
Sandra Federici
6. Born in the “World”: Leila Abdelrazaq’s Writing and Art as World Literature
Allison Blecker, Harvard University, USA
7. Utopias Gone Wrong: Representing the Dystopic Urban in the Indian Graphic Narrative
Debadrita Chakraborty, Cardiff University, UK
8. Opening Up a World and the Temporal-Normative Dimension: Keum Suk Gendry-Kim’s Grass as World Literature
Jin Lee, Myongji University, South Korea
9. Between the Saltwater and the Desert: Indigenous Australian Tales from the Margins
Catherine Sly, Independent Scholar, Australia
10. A Case Study of Sita’s Ramayana, Diasporic Negotiations, COVID-19, and the Television Serial Ramayana
Shilpa Daithota Bhat, Ahmedabad University, India
11. Wakanda as a Sustainable Smart Society: Africanfuturism in Marvel’s Black Panther
Jana Fedtke
12. Neoliberal Ideologies in Menggapai Bintang (Reach for the Stars)
Mohd Muzhafar Idrus, Habibah Ismail and Hazlina Abdullah, Universiti Sains Islam, Malaysia
13. “LONG LIVE the Waste!”: Junk Food Bites Back in Jung’s Approved for Adoption
Sheng-mei Ma, Michigan State University, USA
Notes on Contributors
Index