Comics and the Global South
Methodologies from and within Majority Worlds
Andrea Aramburú (Editor), Dibyadyuti Roy (Editor), Joe Sutliff Sanders (Editor),
Category: African Studies, Americas, Asian Studies, Literature, Media and Visual Culture
Language: English
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Publication date: February 25, 2026
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Original comics scholarship offering methodologies developed from the histories, artistic traditions, and socio-political contexts of comics and visual cultures from the Global South.
Comics, graphic novels and webtoons are exploding in popularity across the Global South and Majority World(s). Because most of the critical and methodological tools in English-language comics scholarship come from the Global North, such approaches are often imperfectly designed to illuminate Global South/Global Majority specificities, innovations, and achievements. Comics and the Global South brings together original comics scholarship that offers methodologies crafted within the histories, artistic traditions, and social and political realities of the comics and visual cultures in and from the Global South. The contributions make a major breakthrough in our ability to understand comics of the Global South on their own terms.
Introduction
Andrea Aramburú, Dibyadyuti Roy, and Joe Sutliff Sanders
Chapter One. Hong Kong Comics : A Liminal Space Bridging the Global South and the Global North
Kin-Wai Chu
Chapter Two. Digital Dreams and Its Discontents: Piracy and Comics in South America
Amadeo Gandolfo
Chapter Three. Working with the Frames : Retellings and Reconstructions in Indian Graphic Narratives
Amrutha Mohan
Chapter Four. Out of the Frame: The Third Space in Indian Graphic Narratives
Debanjana Nayek
Chapter Five. Deconstructing the “Gutter” : A Decolonial Study of the Journey from Patachitra to Comics in Famine Tales
Rounak Gupta and Partha Bhattacharjee
Chapter Six. Malungas: A Global South Feminist Epistemology in Comics
Letícia Simões
Chapter Seven. Global South Comics and the Crisis of Postcolonial Masculinity : Case Studies from Bangladesh and India
Dibyadyuti Roy and Swarnima Banerjee
Chapter Eight. The Upper and Lower Jaws
Zak Waipara
Chapter Nine. Towards Indomanga: ONJ Mangaesque Narratives from India
Ananya Saha
Chapter Ten. Drawing Slavery “With and Against the Archive” in Jesús Cossio’s Joaquín Jayme
Andrea Aramburú
Chapter Eleven. Birthing Beyond Borders: The Role of Comics in Dadaab Refugee Camps
Caroline Bagelman, Jen Bagelman, and Josephine Gitome
About the Contributors
Andrea Aramburú
Andrea Aramburú is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Manchester. She holds a PhD in Latin American Studies from the University of Cambridge. Her research explores Latin American visual cultures through queer theory and decolonial feminisms.
Dibyadyuti Roy
Dibyadyuti Roy is an associate professor in Cultural Studies, Media Studies, and Digital Humanities at the University of Leeds. His scholarship and teaching interrogates cultural narratives of dominant and emergent technologies, with a particular focus on the impact of digitality within marginalized communities.
Joe Sutliff Sanders
Joe Sutliff Sanders is a Fellow at Lucy Cavendish College and a specialist in children’s media in the Faculty of Education at the University of Cambridge.
Caroline Bagelman
Jen Bagelman
Swarnima Banerjee
Partha Bhattacharjee
Kin Wai Amelia Chu
Amadeo Gandolfo
Josephine Gitome
Rounak Gupta
Amrutha Mohan
Debanjana Nayek
Ananya Saha
Letícia Simões
Zak Waipara
This groundbreaking volume offers a fresh, interdisciplinary exploration of comics from the Global South. Employing innovative theoretical and methodological approaches from Postcolonial and Decolonial Studies, Intermediality, and other fields, Comics and the Global South challenges dominant narratives and expands the scope of Comics Studies beyond traditional Western-centric paradigms. This collection is a must-have for anyone interested in understanding the global power of visual storytelling and the cultural significance of comics beyond Western narratives. – Jasmin Wrobel, Ruhr-Universität Bochum
By challenging what and how we think about both comics and the Global South, this ambitious collection of essays builds on efforts to decolonize these concepts and their related fields. Through an impressive range of new methodologies highly attuned to specific contexts from Hong Kong, New Zealand, Bangladesh, and India to Kenya, Brazil, Argentina, and Peru, Comics and the Global South activates new avenues for deeper understanding across differences at a time when such work is urgently needed.- Michelle Bumatay, Florida State University
Comics and the Global South seizes the pluriversal power of decolonial methodologies and roots it in contemporary graphic narratives. Mobilising 'the global south' as a political as well as geographic moniker, its chapters rove from Latin America to South Asia to engage comics in the full force of their dialogism and dissent. A vital volume for any scholar interested in decolonising comics studies – and even more essential reading for those who are not. - Dominic Davies, City St George’s, University of London
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