Yellow Negroes and Other Imaginary Creatures
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| Rating | : | 4.96 (566 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1681371766 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 120 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2018-02-11 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Labeling these artistic collaborations as “Dissidence Art Work,” Alagbé and Marboeuf soon founded their own publishing house, Amok, drawing from the material serialized in Le Chéval, including the first version of Yellow Negroes and Other Imaginary Creatures. Yvan Alagbé was born in Paris and spen
It is a bold and nakedly intense effort to represent the way bereavement may trigger memories, dreams, and rationalization, as well as to describe how, like it or not, family dictates our lives.” —The Comics Journal. Where the individual parts just click, where every creative decision feels right and supports the author’s intent, while retaining the spark of youthful ambition. The bookdeserves attention. Alagbé uses stark, endlessly inventive black-and-white brushwork to explore love and race, oppression and escape." —Publishers Weekly“Nègres is one of those works that becomes emblema
Alain, a Beninese immigrant, struggles to protect his family and his white girlfriend, Claire, while engaged in a strange, tragic dance of obsession and repulsion with Mario, a retired French Algerian policeman. In the stories gathered in Yellow Negroes and Other Imaginary Creatures—drawn between 1994 and 2011, and never before available in English—he uses stark, endlessly inventive black-and-white brushwork to explore love and race, oppression and escape. A timely collection of work about race and immigration in Paris by one of France's most revered cult comic book artists.Yvan Alagbé is one of the most innovative and provocative artists in the world of comics. It is already a classic of alternative comics, and, like the other stories in this collection, becomes more urgent every day.. It is both an extraordinary experiment in visual storytelling and an essential, deeply personal political statement.With unsettling power, the title story depicts the lives of undocumented migrant workers in Paris