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Title:
Drawing France : French comics and the Republic
Author:
Vessels, Joel E.
ISBN:
9781604734454
9781604734447
Publication Information:
Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, ©2010.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xii, 305 pages) : illustrations
Abstract:
In France, Belgium, and other Francophone countries, comic strips--called bande dessinee or "BD" in French--have long been considered a major art form capable of addressing a host of contemporary issues. Among French-speaking intelligentsia, graphic narratives were deemed worthy of canonization and critical study decades before the academy and the press in the United States embraced comics. The place that BD holds today, however, belies the contentious political route the art form has traveled. In Drawing France: French Comics and the Republic, author Joel E. Vessels examines the.
Electronic Access:
http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt12f6prCopies:
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