Comics and the Global South: Methodologies from and within Majority Worlds - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9462705046 ISBN 13: 9789462705043

Publisher: Leuven University Press, 2026

Synopsis

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.

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About the Authors

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 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 is a Fellow at Lucy Cavendish College and a specialist in children’s media in the Faculty of Education at the University of Cambridge.

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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.

Andrea Aramburú is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Manchester and specialises in feminist, queer, and decolonial approaches to Latin American visual cultures.
Dibyadyuti Roy is an Associate Professor at the University of Leeds. His scholarship and teaching interrogate cultural narratives of dominant technologies with a particular focus on digitality within Global South/Majority spaces.
Joe Sutliff Sanders is a specialist in children’s media in the Faculty of Education at the University of Cambridge.

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. - Michelle Bumatay, Florida State University

Comics and the Global South seizes the pluriversal power of decolonial methodologies and roots it in contemporary graphic narratives. A vital volume for any scholar interested in decolonising comics studies. - Dominic Davies, City St George’s, University of London

Edition details

• Publisher: Leuven University Press
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9462705046
• ISBN 13: 9789462705043
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 274
• Editor: Aramburú Andrea, Roy Dibyadyuti, Sutliff Sanders Joe