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Invisible Presence: The Representation of Women in French-Language Comics

By (author) Catriona MacLeod

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This book looks at the representation of female characters in French comics from their first appearance in 1905. Organised into three sections, the book looks at theÂ representation of women as main characters created by men, as secondary characters created by men, and as characters created by women. It focuses on female characters, both primary and secondary, in the francophone comic or bande dessinÃ©e, as well as the work of female bande dessinÃ©e creators more generally. Until now these characters and creators have received relatively little scholarly attention; this new book is set to change this status quo. Using feminist scholarship, especially from well-known film and literary theorists, theÂ book asks what it means to draw women from within a phallocentric, male-dominated paradigm, as well as how the particular medium of bande dessinÃ©e, its form as well as its history, has shaped dominant representations of women. This is the first book to study the representation of women in the French-language drawn strip. There are no other works with this specific focus, either on women in Franco-Belgian comics, or on the drawn representation of women by men. This is aÂ very useful addition to both general discussions of French-language comics, and toÂ discussions of womenâ€™s comics, which are focused on comics by women only. As it is written in English, and due to the popularity of comic art in Britain and the United States, this book will primarily appeal to an Anglo-American market. However, the cultural and gender studies approach this text employs (theoretical frameworks still notÂ widely seen in non-Anglophone studies of the bande dessinÃ©e)Â will ensure that the text is also of interest to a Franco-Belgian audience. With a focus on an art-form which also inspires a lot of public (non-academic) enthusiasm, it will also appeal to fans of the bande dessinÃ©e (or wider comic art medium) who are interested in the representation of women in comic art, and to comics scholars on a broad scale.