Comics of the New Europe : : Reflections and Intersections / / edited by Martha Kuhlman and José Alaniz.

• TeilnehmendeR: Alaniz, José,; Kuhlman, Martha,
• Place / Publishing House: Leuven, Belgium : : Leuven University Press,, 2022.; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (289 pages) :; illustrations some color

Bringing together the work of an array of North American and European scholars, this collection highlights a previously unexamined area within global comics studies. It analyses comics from countries formerly behind the Iron Curtain like East Germany, Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Yugoslavia, and Ukraine, given their shared history of WWII and communism. In addition to situating these graphic narratives in their national and subnational contexts, Comics of the New Europe pays particular attention to transnational connections along the common themes of nostalgia, memoir, and life under communism. The essays offer insights into a new generation of European cartoonists that looks forward, inspired and informed by traditions from Franco-Belgian and American comics, and back, as they use the medium of comics to reexamine and reevaluate not only their national pasts and respective comics traditions but also their own post-1989 identities and experiences.

Table of Contents

General introduction: comics of the "new" Europe / Martha Kuhlman, José Alaniz -- Part 1. The former Yugoslav states -- Un-drawn experience: visualizing trauma in Aleksandar Zograf's -- Regards from Serbia / Max Bledstein -- Filial estrangement and figurative mourning in the work of Nina Bunjevac / Dragana Obradovic -- Reality check through the historical avant-garde: Danilo Milosev Wostok / Aleksandra Sekulic -- Part 2. Czechoslovakia/the Czech Republic -- Facets of nostalgia: text-centric longing in comics and graphic novels by Pavel Cech / Pavel Korinek -- The avant-garde aesthetic of Vojtech Masek / Martha Kuhlman -- Regardless of context: graphic novels with the faceless (and homelandless) hero of Branko Jelinek / Martin Foret -- Part 3. Germany -- Co-opting childhood and obscuring ideology in Mosaik von Hannes Hegen, 1959-1974 / Sean Eedy -- Images of spies and counter spies in East German comics / Michael F. Scholz -- Towards a graphic historicity: authenticity and photography in the German graphic novel / Elizabeth "Biz" Nijdam -- Part 4. Poland, Ukraine, Romania, Hungary -- Women, feminism and Polish comic books: Fras/Hagedorn's Totalnie nie nostalgia / Ewa Staficzyk -- Igor Baranko and national precarity in post-Soviet Ukrainian comics / Jose Alaniz -- The autobiographical mode in post-communist Romanian comics: everyday life in Brynjar Abel Bandlien's Strimb living and Andreea -- Chirica's The year of the pioneer / Mihaela Precup -- Avatars and iteration in contemporary Hungarian autobiographical comics / Eszter Szep.