Identity and History in Non-Anglophone Comics

Harriet E.H. Earle is a senior lecturer in English at Sheffield Hallam University and research fellow at the Centre for War, Atrocity, and Genocide at the University of Nipissing. She is the author of Comics, Trauma, and the New Art of War (2017) and Comics: An Introduction (2020) and the series editor of Global Perspectives in Comics Studies. She also sits on the editorial board of the Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics. Martin Lund is senior lecturer in religious studies at the Department of Society, Culture and Identity at Malmö University, Sweden. He is the author of Re-Constructing the Man of Steel: Superman 1938–1941, Jewish American History, and the Invention of the Jewish–Comics Connection (2016) and co-editor of Muslim Superheroes: Comics, Islam, and Representation (2017, with A. David Lewis) and Unstable Masks: Whiteness and American Superhero Comics (2020, with Sean Guynes). His research interests include the intersections of religions and comics, comics and identity, and comics and urban life. He is also co-editor of the series Encapsulations: Critical Comics Studies (with Julia Round).

List of Figures

List of Contributors

1 Introduction

Harriet E.H. Earle and Martin Lund

PART 1

Identities

2 Outwitting the Flemish Past: Willy Vandersteen’s Dealing with Brabant Underdogs in Suske en Wiske’s ‘Het Spaanse spook’ (1948–1950)

Michel De Dobbeleer

3 Displacement, Space, and Questions of Belonging: German and Colombian Graphic Novels in Dialogue

Felipe Gomez and Gabi Maier

4 Visual Aspects of Modern Greek Identity

Ioanna Papaki

5 Mexico’s Conquest, Independence, and Revolution According to Rius

Annick Pellegrin

PART 2

Radicalisms

6 Socialist Swedish Comics: Anticapitalism, International Solidarity and Whiteness in Johan Vilde and The Phantom

Robert Aman

7 Abandoning Ideals and Producing Graphic Disillusionment in Suomen suurin kommunisti

Oskari Rantala

8 Capitalism, Freedom, Future: Picture of Polish Transformation in the Graphic Novel Osiedle Swoboda

Wojciech Lewandowski

9 Dissent and Resistance in Contemporary Portuguese Comics: The Case of Buraco #4 and Porto’s Es.Col.A. Movement

Pedro Moura

PART 3

Genders

10 How to Discuss Sexual Identity, Minority Rights, and Society in Chile?: The Case of Katherine Supnem’s ‘Underground’ Comics

Mario Faust-Scalisi

11 Questioning the Inescapable Male Gaze in Altarriba and Kim’s El arte de volar and El ala rota

Mikel Bermello Isusi

12 The Pirate, the Queen, and the Handkerchief: Grainne Mhaol, an Irishwoman among Men

Christina M. Knopf

PART 4

Historiographics

13 Expressions of Subjectivity: Recent Historical Events Represented in Twenty-First-Century Chilean Autobiographical Comics

Paloma Dominguez Jeria and Mariana Munoz

14 Punťa the Dog Goes to the Second Italo-Abyssinian War: Czech, Polish, and American Comic Heroes in the Real- World Conflict of 1935–1936

Lucie Kořinkova and Pavel Kořinek

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