This edited volume will examine drawn comic strips (bandes dessinées) as they relate to postcolonialism in contemporary Anglophone and Francophone diasporic cultures. The “comics exceptionalism” (Petersen) of current scholarship in Anglo-American, Japanese, or European traditions miss how contemporary “ninth art” production in postcolonial contexts record historical critique, political action, or emergent transnational narratives of trauma, gender, revolution, and global trafficking. Some helpful critical frames: Comics and the production of postmodern identities, the place of comics within global political communities, transnational comics and new visual technologies.

Please send abstracts in English of 300-400 words by May 31, 2012 to Pia Mukherji at pia.mukherji@gmail.com, or Binita Mehta at inkamehta@gmail.com