Can a book change the world? Fighting Words looks at how the book has fuelled resistance to empire in the long twentieth century. What emerges is a complex portrait of the vital and multifaceted role played by the book in both the formation and the form of anticolonial resistance, and the development of the postcolonial world.
Infrastructure and the Global City in Contemporary Graphic Narratives
Focusing on contemporary comics, this book explores works created by artists and collectives in cities with histories of division and ongoing segregation. It offers insightful readings that highlight how these comics reflect and respond to the complexities of urban life shaped by physical and cultural barriers, revealing the unique narratives that emerge from such environments.
The colonial literature of the British Empire often depicted the imperial infrastructure: railways, telegraph wires, steamships and canals. With a focus on writers in South Africa and India, the author uses 'infrastructural reading' to demonstrate the connection between the depictions of these urban developments and anti-imperial resistance.