Comics and the Global South

Methodologies from and within Majority Worlds
Erscheinungsjahr 2026
ISBN: 978-94-6270-504-3
Verlag: Leuven University Press

Buch, Englisch, 274 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 526 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Aramburu, Andrea

Aramburú, Andrea

Roy, Dibyadyuti

Sutliff Sanders, Joe

Weitere Mitwirkende

Bagelman, Caroline

Bagelman, Jen

Banerjee, Swarnima

Bhattacharjee, Partha

Chu, Kin Wai Amelia

Gandolfo, Amadeo

Gitome, Josephine

Gupta, Rounak

Mohan, Amrutha

Nayek, Debanjana

Saha, Ananya

Simões, Letícia

Waipara, Zak

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Design Comics & Cartoons (Design)
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Gattungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Postkoloniale Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Postkoloniale Geschichte, Nationale Befreiung und Unabhängigkeit

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

About the Contributors

Über Autor(innen)

Aramburú, Andrea
Andrea Aramburú is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Manchester. She holds a PhD in Latin American Studies from the University of Cambridge. Her research explores Latin American visual cultures through queer theory and decolonial feminisms.

Sutliff Sanders, Joe
Joe Sutliff Sanders is a Fellow at Lucy Cavendish College and a specialist in children’s media in the Faculty of Education at the University of Cambridge.

Roy, Dibyadyuti
Dibyadyuti Roy is an associate professor in Cultural Studies, Media Studies, and Digital Humanities at the University of Leeds. His scholarship and teaching interrogates cultural narratives of dominant and emergent technologies, with a particular focus on the impact of digitality within marginalized communities.