This book takes an interdisciplinary and diverse critical look at the work of comic artist Ilan Manouach, situating it within the avant-garde movement more broadly.
An international team of authors engages with the topic from diverse theoretical approaches, from traditional narratology and aesthetic close readings of some of Manouach's books, engaging with comics' own distinctive history, modes of production, circulation and reception, to perspectives from disability studies, post-colonial studies, technological criticism, media ecology, ontography, posthumanist philosophy, and issues of materiality and media specificity.
This innovative and timely volume will interest students and scholars of comic studies, media studies, media ecology, literature, cultural studies, and visual studies.
Edited by:
Pedro Moura
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781032450056
ISBN 10: 1032450053
Series: Routledge Advances in Comics Studies
Pages: 248
Publication Date: 18 December 2024
Audience:
College/higher education
,
Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming
Foreword Introduction: A Critical Situatedness of Comics Part 1: Textuality and Surfaces 1. Katz, Noirs & Tintin akei Kongo: Ilan Manouach’s Critical Manifesto 2. Ilan Manouach’s Abrégé de bande dessinée franco-belge: Ontography and the Past and Future of Stories 3. Whitewashing the Smudge: The Politics of Erasure and Unreadability in Ilan Manouach's Cascao 4. The Void that Challenged Narrative: A Poetics of Emptiness in Riki Fermier 5. Replacing and Reorganizing: A Discursive Arc about Cultural Production Part 2: Reading Practices 6. Reading Childly: Riki Fermier and Cascao 7. Disability, Comics and the Shapereader 8. Shapereader and the Limits of Touch 9. Blanco: On Blank and Illegible Books Part 3: Rethinking the Pasts and the Futures of Comics 10. Manouach Contrabandier: Countering Practices to Industrial Publishing. 11. Haunted by Tradition: Ilan Manouach and the Ghosts of BD Past 12. [CoCo]: Conceptual Comics and Online Archives 13. Can Comics Think? Automation on The Cubicle Island 14. Ilan Manouach: The Comic Book Hacker Afterword: Like a Robot Bereft of Its Function
Pedro Moura is an independent scholar, teacher, and comics scriptwriter from Lisbon, Portugal. He holds a PhD from the University of Lisbon and KU Leuven.
