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Urban Comics - Infrastructure and the Global City in Contemporary Graphic Narratives (Hardcover)
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Urban Comics - Infrastructure and the Global City in Contemporary Graphic Narratives (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Advances in Comics Studies
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Urban Comics: Infrastructure and the Global City in Contemporary
Graphic Narratives makes an important and timely contribution both
to comics studies and urban studies, offering a decolonisation and
reconfiguration of both of these already interdisciplinary fields.
With chapter-length discussions of comics from cities such as
Cairo, Cape Town, New Orleans, Delhi and Beirut, this book shows
how artistic collectives and urban social movements working across
the global South are producing some of the most exciting and
formally innovative graphic narratives of the contemporary moment.
Throughout, the author reads an expansive range of graphic
narratives through the vocabulary of urban studies to argue that
these formal innovations should be thought of as a kind of
infrastructure. This 'infrastructural form' allows urban comics to
reveal that the built environments of our cities are not static,
banal, or depoliticised, but rather highly charged material spaces
that allow some forms of social life to exist while also
prohibiting others. Built from a formal infrastructure of grids,
gutters and panels, and capable of volumetric, multi-scalar
perspectives, this book shows how urban comics are able to
represent, repair and even rebuild contemporary global cities
toward more socially just and sustainable ends. Operating at the
intersection of comics studies and urban studies, and offering
large global surveys alongside close textual and visual analyses,
this book explores and opens up the fascinating relationship
between comics and graphic narratives, on the one hand, and cities
and urban spaces, on the other.
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