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

Author:   Ewa Stanczyk
Publisher:   Ohio State University Press
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9780814258385


Pages:   200
Publication Date:   21 July 2022
Format:   Paperback
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Comics and Nation: Power, Pop Culture, and Political Transformation in Poland


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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.

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Author:   Ewa Stanczyk
Publisher:   Ohio State University Press
Imprint:   Ohio State University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.00cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.60cm
Weight:   0.318kg
ISBN:  

9780814258385


ISBN 10:   0814258387
Pages:   200
Publication Date:   21 July 2022
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock   Availability explained
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"""Comics and Nation is a welcome contribution to the growing interest in Central and Eastern European comics. Stańczyk carefully contextualizes Polish comics history within a web of influences from major comics cultures. Her findings will be valuable to many comics scholars, regardless of the languages and cultures of specialization."" --Maaheen Ahmed, author of Openness of Comics: Generating Meaning within Flexible Structures ""Stańczyk presents a straightforward and elegant treatment of the otherwise complex phenomenon of transculturation in Polish comic art. Comics and Nation is a remarkable work that goes much further than existing appreciations of comics in Poland."" --Richard Scully, author of British Images of Germany: Admiration, Antagonism, and Ambivalence, 1860-1914"


Comics and Nation is a welcome contribution to the growing interest in Central and Eastern European comics. Stanczyk carefully contextualizes Polish comics history within a web of influences from major comics cultures. Her findings will be valuable to many comics scholars, regardless of the languages and cultures of specialization. --Maaheen Ahmed, author of Openness of Comics: Generating Meaning within Flexible Structures Stan czyk presents a straightforward and elegant treatment of the otherwise complex phenomenon of transculturation in Polish comic art. Comics and Nation is a remarkable work that goes much further than existing appreciations of comics in Poland. --Richard Scully, author of British Images of Germany: Admiration, Antagonism, and Ambivalence, 1860-1914


"""It will be of interest to those who love not only the art form, but its intersection with history."" --Polish-American Review ""Comics and Nation is a welcome contribution to the growing interest in Central and Eastern European comics. Stańczyk carefully contextualizes Polish comics history within a web of influences from major comics cultures. Her findings will be valuable to many comics scholars, regardless of the languages and cultures of specialization."" --Maaheen Ahmed, author of Openness of Comics: Generating Meaning within Flexible Structures ""Stańczyk presents a straightforward and elegant treatment of the otherwise complex phenomenon of transculturation in Polish comic art. Comics and Nation is a remarkable work that goes much further than existing appreciations of comics in Poland."" --Richard Scully, author of British Images of Germany: Admiration, Antagonism, and Ambivalence, 1860-1914"


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Ewa Stańczyk 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.

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