Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2014];©2014
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Notes:
- This is the first overview of cartoon art in this important cultural nexus of Asia. The eight chapters provide historical and present-day overviews of cartoons and comics in Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam, and sociocultural and political analyses of cartooning in Singapore, Myanmar, and Malaysia — Provided by publisher.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-230) and index.
- Cartooning in Indonesia: an overview / John A. Lent — Philippine Komiks: 1928 to the present / John A. Lent — The uphill climb to reach a plateau: historical analysis of the development of Thai cartooning / Warat Karuchit — The swerving status of Cambodian comic art / John A. Lent — Cartooning in Vietnam: a brief overview / John A. Lent — Chinese cartoonists in Singapore: chauvinism, confrontation and compromise (1950-1980) / Lim Cheng Tju — Political cartoons and Burma’s transnational public sphere / Lisa Brooten — Cartoonist Lat and Malaysian national identity: an appreciation / Muliyadi Mahamood.
Subjects:
- Cartooning — Southeast Asia — History.
- Comic books, strips, etc. — Southeast Asia — History.
- Popular culture — Southeast Asia.
Requested by Kurpiers, R