How Comics Travel: Publication, Translation, Radical Literacies (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780814215043)

Winner, 2023 Eisner Award for Best Scholarly/Academic Work
Honorable Mention, 2023 CSS Charles Hatfield Book Prize

In How Comics Travel: Publication, Translation, Radical Literacies, Katherine Kelp-Stebbins challenges the clich馘 understanding of comics as a "universal" language, circulating without regard for cultures or borders. Instead, she develops a new methodology of reading for difference. Kelp-Stebbins's anticolonial, feminist, and antiracist analytical framework engages with comics as sites of struggle over representation in a diverse world. Through comparative case studies of Metro, Tintin, Persepolis, and more, she explores the ways in which graphic narratives locate and dislocate readers in every phase of a transnational comic's life cycle according to distinct visual, linguistic, and print cultures. How Comics Travel disengages from the constrictive pressures of nationalism and imperialism, both in comics studies and world literature studies more broadly, to offer a new vision of how comics depict and enact the world as a transcultural space.

Author: Katherine Kelp-Stebbins
ISBN-10: 0814215041
ISBN-13: 9780814215043
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Language: English
Published: 03/25/2022
Pages: 238
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.45lbs
Size: 9.13h x 6.06w x 0.87d