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Author:   Jacob Hoigilt
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   I.B. Tauris
Volume:   213
Weight:   0.531kg
ISBN:  

9781784539856

ISBN 10:   1784539856
Pages:   248
Publication Date:   13 December 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

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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Jacob Hoigilt is Senior Researcher at the Peace Research Institute, Oslo, and Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages, University of Oslo. He was previously Senior Researcher at the Fafo Institute for Applied International Studies. He has published the monograph Islamist Rhetoric: Language and Culture in Contemporary Egypt as well as in various edited collections and journals.

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