{"product_id":"on-black-bandes-dessines-and-michelle-bumatay-9780814259375","title":"On Black Bandes Dessin?es and Transcolonial Power","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eOn Black \u003c\/i\u003eBandes Dessin?es\u003ci\u003e and Transcolonial Power\u003c\/i\u003e is the first book-length study in English about Black francophone cartoonists and their work. Michelle Bumatay decenters Eurocentric conceptions of francophone comic art and foregrounds the ubiquity of Western racial stereotypes encoded in mainstream French and Belgian \u003ci\u003ebandes dessin?es\u003c\/i\u003e as well as the imbalance of power between the Global North and the Global South carried over from the colonial era. By examining a diversity of Black cartoonists' aesthetic and material responses to the colonially inherited medium of \u003ci\u003ebandes dessin?es, \u003c\/i\u003e she argues that their innovations constitute important reparative work that combats racial stereotypes and challenges transcolonial power imbalances. Bumatay demonstrates how Barly Baruti, Papa Mfumu'eto, Marguerite Abouet, Japhet Miagotar, and other Black cartoonists throughout the francophone world employ a range of tactics to tell their own stories. Through a balance of historical context and close readings, she shows how these artists represent and comment on their everyday lives in a postcolonial reality, expose and critique racial capitalism and exploitation, and provide new ways of seeing and understanding Black francophone peoples and cultures.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Michelle Bumatay\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0814259375\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780814259375\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ohio State University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/13\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 168\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Michelle Bumatay","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46451215794431,"sku":"9780814259375","price":36.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_8b5e4c67-09be-469f-90ca-34bb3f7cf554.jpg?v=1735876807","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/on-black-bandes-dessines-and-michelle-bumatay-9780814259375","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}