Acknowledgements
Introduction
PART 1
The History of bande desinée
1. From the Nineteenth Century to the 1960s:
bande dessinée Becomes a Children’s Medium, and then Starts to Grow Up
2. The 1970s: Expansion and Experimentation
3. The 1980s: Recuperation by the Mainstream
4. From the 1990s to the Twenty-First Century: The Return of the Independent Sector
PART 2
Analytical Frameworks
5. The Codes and Formal Resources of
bande dessinée
6. Narrative Theory and
bande dessinée
7.
Bande dessinée as Postmodernist Art Form
PART 3
A Cultural Studies Approach to bande dessinée
8. National Identity
9. Postcolonial Identities
10. Social Class and Masculinity
PART 4
Bande dessinée and subjectivity
11. Psychoanalytic Approaches to Tintin
12. Autobiography and Diary Writing in
bande dessinée
13. Gender and Autobiography
Notes
Appendix
Bibliography
Index