Lexington Books
Pages: 256
Trim: 6¼ x 9¼
978-1-4985-1606-8 • Hardback • October 2015 • $128.00 • (£98.00)
978-1-4985-1608-2 • Paperback • April 2017 • $59.99 • (£46.00)
978-1-4985-1607-5 • eBook • October 2015 • $57.00 • (£44.00)
Jennifer Howell is assistant professor of French at Illinois State University.
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Chronology of the Algerian War
Introduction: The Algerian War and French Comics
One “De case en classe”: Teaching the Algerian War
Two Historical Narrative, French Colonial Culture, and Comics
Three Packaging History for Mass Consumption
Four Atrocity Photographs and Reporting War
Five Self, Other, and Self-Othering
Six Mapping Colonial Landscapes
Seven French Comics as Postmemory
Conclusion: The Postcolonial Turn in Teaching, Remembering, and Cartooning
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
[T]his is a compelling book about the politics of memory and the visual practices of France’s graphic novels. Jennifer Howell provides a rich case study of French comics about the Algerian War that is both historically resonant and immediate in its contemporary applicability.
— European Comic Art
Jennifer Howell displays her remarkable expertise in The Algerian War in French-Language Comics: PostcolonialMemory, History, and Subjectivity, a monograph where the interdisciplinary nature of French cultural studies is beautifully illustrated. Howell’s work shows how French-language comics about the Algerian War have both shaped and reinterpreted historical memories and consequently affected France’s relationship to its colonial past as well as its legacy in the present. As such, her book not only engages with colonial and postcolonial studies, but also with history, memory and postmemory.
— The Journal of North African Studies