[Comicsstudiessociety] IJOCA review copy: Strong Bonds - only in USA

[Mike Rhode]

The book has been taken, thank you.

Mike

On Sat, Jan 30, 2021, 11:18 AM Mike Rhode <mrhode at gmail.com> wrote:

> Available to the first person to email me directly in the US (due to
> postage costs).
>
> Mike Rhode
> mrhode at gmail.com
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>
> *Strong Bonds: **Child-animal Relationships in Comics*
> par Maaheen Ahmed (ed.)
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> Snoopy and Charlie Brown, Calvin and Hobbes, Tintin and Snowy… comics are
> home to many memorable child and animal figures. Many cultural productions,
> especially children’s literature and cartoons, stress the similarities
> between children and animals, similarities that have their limits and often
> place the child, as human, above the animal. Still, these fictional
> situations offer opportunities for thinking of child-animal relationships
> in diverse ways through, for instance, considering the possibilities of
> privileged contact between children and animals or of animals that are more
> knowledgeable and powerful than children and even adults.
> Despite the prevalence and success of child-animal tandems in comics and
> culture, we know very little about these relationships. What makes them so
> popular? How do they work? How much do they vary across time and cultures?
> What do they tell us about the place of animals and children in comics and
> in the real world?
> *Strong Bonds: Child-animal Relationships in Comics* takes a first,
> important step in this direction. Bringing together scholars with a diverse
> range of comics expertise, the volume’s chapters combine contextualized
> readings of comics with relevant theories for interrogating childhood and
> animalhood, their overlaps and divergences. The strong bonds between
> children and animals mapped out here point towards alternative modes of
> conceptualizing family and identity and, ultimately, alternative means of
> reading, interpreting and imagining.
> With chapters on early comics (the Italian children’s magazine* Corriere
> dei Piccoli* during WWI, Harold Gray’s* Little Orphan Annie*)
> international and regional classics (*Tintin*, the Flemish *Jommeke*) and
> contemporary graphic novels (Bryan Talbot’s* A Tale of One Bad Rat*,
> Brecht Even’s *Panther*), this critical anthology sheds light on a vast
> array of child-animal relationships in comics from Europe and North America.
>
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> *Maaheen Ahmed* is an associate professor of comparative literature at
> Ghent University. She is author of *Openness of Comics* (2016) and *Monstrous
> Imaginaries: The Legacy of Romanticism in Comics *(2020). She is
> currently principal investigator of the ERC-funded project COMICS which
> seeks to piece together an intercultural history of children and comics.
> ISBN : 978-2-87562-259-4
> Année de publication : 2020
> Prix : 16.00€ TVAC
> Pages : 296
> Disciplines : ACME, Tout le catalogue
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