Comics in Contemporary Arab Culture
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Comics in Contemporary Arab Culture

Politics, Language and Resistance

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Comics in Contemporary Arab Culture

Politics, Language and Resistance

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Comic books for adults have become one of the most novel and colourful forms of cultural expression in the Arab world today. During the last ten years, young Arabs have crafted stories explaining issues such as authoritarianism, resistance, war, sex, gender relations and youth culture. These are distributed through informal channels as well as independent bookstores and websites. Events like the annual Cairocomix festival in Egypt and the Mahmoud Kahil Award in Lebanon evidence the importance of this cultural phenomenon.
Comics in Contemporary Arab Culture focuses on the production of these comics in Egypt and Lebanon, countries at the forefront of the development of the genre for adults. Jacob Hoigilt guides the reader through the emergence of independent comics, explores their social and political critique, and analyses their visual and verbal rhetoric. Analysing more than 50 illustrations, included here, he shows that Arab comics are revealing of the changing attitudes towards politics, social relations and even language. While political analysts often paint a bleak picture of the Arab world after 2011, this book suggests that art and storytelling continue to nourish a spirit of liberty and freedom despite political setbacks. Comics in Contemporary Arab Culture provides a fresh and original insight into the politics of the Middle East and cultural expression in the Arab World.

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Publisher
I.B. Tauris
Year
2018
ISBN
9781786735485
Edition
1
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Gender Studies
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Author biography
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. List of Figures and Plates
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. A Note on Transliteration
  9. 1 Introduction
  10. 2 Mapping the scene
  11. 3 Resistance against authoritarianism and war: Adult comics before 2011
  12. 4 Comics in revolutionary and post-revolutionary Egypt
  13. 5 Gender relations
  14. 6 Youthfulness and the vernacular
  15. 7 Comics and sociolinguistics: Informal literacy, voice and language ideology
  16. 8 Conclusion: Ideology, resistance and voice
  17. Notes
  18. Bibliography
  19. Index