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" The Algerian War of Independence in Algerian bande dessinée "
Dean, Veronica Katherine
Brozgal, Lia N.
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Latin Dissertation
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English
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1053675
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TL52792
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Dean, Veronica Katherine
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The Algerian War of Independence in Algerian bande dessinée\ Dean, Veronica KatherineBrozgal, Lia N.
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University of California, Los Angeles
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2020
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Ph.D.
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2020
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208 p.
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“The Algerian War of Independence in Algerian bande dessinée” is animated by the question of how bande dessinée from Algeria represent the nation’s struggle for independence from France. Although the war is represented extensively in bande dessinée from France and Algeria, French texts are more well-known than their Algerian counterparts among scholars and bédéphiles alike. Catalysts behind this project are the disproportionate awareness and study of French bande dessinée on the war and the fact that critical studies of Algerian bande dessinée are rare and often superficial. This project nevertheless builds upon existing scholarship by problematizing its assumptions and conclusions, including the generalization that Algerian bande dessinée that depict the war are in essence propagandistic in nature. Employing tools of comics analysis and inflecting my research with journalistic work coming out of Algeria, this project attempts to rectify the treatment of Algerian bande dessinée in critical scholarship by illustrating the rich tradition of historical representation in the medium. Using the theoretical lens of genre theory, this project establishes and explores what I call the Algerian War Genre as a way to understand the corpus of texts on the war and to elevate Algerian bande dessinée to the status of art that merits analysis. Each of the three chapters examine examples of the Algerian War Genre. The flexible and mutable criterion of the Algerian War Genre is a strength of this study because it encourages diversity among texts in terms of format, decade of publication, and content. The framework of genre spans the project, while individual chapters engage with genre theory and comics theory to different extents. The chapters are organized by bédéiste in order to draw attention to their individual contributions to the medium and the genre as its pioneers.
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French literature
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North African studies
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Brozgal, Lia N.
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University of California, Los Angeles
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