Graphic Narratives of Resistance

Advocating for Representation and Social Justice in French-language Bandes Dessinees

By: Jennifer Boum Make (Editor), Charly Verstraet (Editor)

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Hardcover | 31 August 2025

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Examines the political and aesthetic gestures embedded in bandes dessinees and graphic novels in order to question the past and the contemporary realities of the French-speaking world.

This edited volume sheds light on the unique capacity of the comics medium for redrawing histories and for exploring hidden, forbidden or imagined spaces. Studying a variety of texts from the French-speaking world, it considers how bandes dessinees (BD) and graphic novels can highlight environmental, gender, racial, religious, political and social questions. It also demonstrates how BD can offer readers new perspectives through formal experiment and through reworking and subverting dominant iconographies. The contributions in this volume showcase how the comic medium, through the combination of text and image, engages with notions of voice, power, bias and perspective, and can be used as a pedagogical tool and a form of resistance to discuss diversity, decolonisation, inclusion and social justice issues.

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