Comics in Contemporary Arab Culture

1. Introduction
Scope and themes
The analysis of comics
Structure of the book
2. Mapping the scene
3. Resistance against authoritarianism and war: adult comics before 2011
A tradition of political critique: War comics in Lebanon
Critique of authoritarianism in Samandal magazine
4. Comics in revolutionary and post-revolutionary Egypt
Drawing a revolution
Revolutionary criticism and humour in Egyptian comics
5. Gender relations
Gender relations: a core issue
Slapstick humour and exaggerations
Visual symbolism
The rhetoric of the panels
In favour of the sensitive man
6. Youthfulness and the vernacular
The marginalization of youth in the Arab world
Asserting youthfulness
Individuality and alienation
Youthfulness and the vernacular
7. Comics and sociolinguistics: informal literacy, voice and language ideology
Inhabiting a third space
Voice
Diglossia and written Arabic
Language Ideology and the illusion of zero-sum games
Informal literacy and the ideology of diglossia
8 Conclusion: Ideology, resistance and voice
Bibliography

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• Subversão política
• Sociolinguística
• Os estudos de gênero, grupos de gênero
• Cultura popular
• Opressão e perseguição política
• Estudos islâmicos
• Estudos cultirais