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10. Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi?

Authors : Bart Beaty, Benjamin Woo

Published in: The Greatest Comic Book of All Time

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US

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Abstract

This chapter considers the way that foreign-language comic books (French-language bandes dessinées and Japanese manga) have shaped the American comic book industry. Specifically, the chapter seeks to demonstrate the way that foreign-language comics are understood differently in the USA than they frequently are in their home countries. This chapter focuses on processes of exoticization and misrecognition that tend to recast works and mitigate against the understanding of comics as a global phenomenon.

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Title: Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi?
Authors: Bart Beaty
Benjamin Woo
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
Book: The Greatest Comic Book of All Time
Print ISBN: 978-1-137-56196-1

Electronic ISBN: 978-1-137-53162-9

Copyright Year: 2016
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-53162-9_10