Comics and the Global South
Methodologies from and within Majority Worlds
Joe Sutliff Sanders editor Andrea Aramburú editor Dibyadyuti Roy editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Leuven University Press
Publishing:10th Feb '26
£49.00
This title is due to be published on 10th February, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
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 world, with extraordinary artistic achievements emerging from 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 resultant 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. With new ideas about how to read panels, lines, colour, and meaning, the contributions make a major breakthrough in our ability to understand comics of the Global South on their own terms.
This groundbreaking volume offers a fresh, interdisciplinary exploration of comics from the Global South. Employing innovative theoretical and methodological approaches from Postcolonial and Decolonial Studies, Intermediality, and other fields, Comics and the Global South challenges dominant narratives and expands the scope of Comics Studies beyond traditional Western-centric paradigms. This collection is a must-have for anyone interested in understanding the global power of visual storytelling and the cultural significance of comics beyond Western narratives. – Jasmin Wrobel, Ruhr-Universität Bochum
By challenging what and how we think about both comics and the Global South, this ambitious collection of essays builds on efforts to decolonize these concepts and their related fields. Through an impressive range of new methodologies highly attuned to specific contexts from Hong Kong, New Zealand, Bangladesh, and India to Kenya, Brazil, Argentina, and Peru, Comics and the Global South activates new avenues for deeper understanding across differences at a time when such work is urgently needed.- Michelle Bumatay, Florida State University
Comics and the Global South seizes the pluriversal power of decolonial methodologies and roots it in contemporary graphic narratives. Mobilising 'the global south' as a political as well as geographic moniker, its chapters rove from Latin America to South Asia to engage comics in the full force of their dialogism and dissent. A vital volume for any scholar interested in decolonising comics studies – and even more essential reading for those who are not. - Dominic Davies, City St George’s, University of London
ISBN: 9789462705043
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300 pages