Comics and Nation: Power, Pop Culture, and Political Transformation in Poland - Couverture souple

Stanczyk, Ewa

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0814258387 ISBN 13 : 9780814258385

Editeur : Ohio State University Press, 2022

Synopsis

Winner, 2023 Comics Studies Society Charles Hatfield Book Prize

Comics and Nation offers a fresh perspective on the role of popular culture in the one-hundred-year history of the Polish state, from its foundation in 1918 to the present. Drawing on dozens of press articles, interviews, and readers’ letters, Ewa Stańczyk discusses how journalists, artists, and audiences used comics to probe the boundaries of national culture and scrutinize the established notions of Polishness. Critical moments of Poland’s political transformation ––the establishment of the interwar Polish Republic, the Cold War, the liberalization of the 1970s, the 1989 democratic transition, the turn to memory politics in the 2000s––have all been reflected in the history of Polish comics. Stańczyk offers new insights into how the production of homegrown comics and the influx of foreign works enabled commentators to express their fears, hopes, and disillusionment with political, economic, and cultural changes in Poland and beyond. At its core, Comics and Nation rethinks the impact of popular culture and transnational exchange on Polish nation building, citizenship formation, and the legitimation of power.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Ewa Stanczyk is Senior Lecturer in East European Studies at the University of Amsterdam. She is the author of Commemorating the Children of World War II in Poland: Combative Remembrance.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Ohio State University Press
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0814258387
• ISBN 13: 9780814258385
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 226
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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