Editorships by Maaheen Ahmed
The Cambridge Companion to Comics provides readers with the histories and theories necessary for ... more The Cambridge Companion to Comics provides readers with the histories and theories necessary for studying comics. Chapters explore comics through several key aspects, including drawing, serialities, adaptation, transmedia storytelling, issues of stereotyping and representation, and the lives of comics in institutional and social settings. This volume emphasizes the relationship between comics and other media and modes of expression. Covering more than a century of comics production and combining disciplinary frameworks, it offers close readings of vital works.
Papers by Maaheen Ahmed
Monstrous Imaginaries
This books engages with studies on Romanticism and on monsters in order to map out the heritage, ... more This books engages with studies on Romanticism and on monsters in order to map out the heritage, functions, and affects of good monsters in contemporary comics and graphic novels. It shows how Romantic inclinations and themes are continued through comics monsters that question the distinction between human and monster, self and other. Taking as its point of departure Romantic artists such as Goya and Blake and protagonists such as Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein's monster as well as figurations of the trickster and Baudelairian ennui, the book gleans recurrent Romantic features that are then drawn out through monstrous protagonists in English- and French-language comics: dark romantic predilection for ruins and the sordid, the solitary protagonist, his quest, nostalgia, the prominence of the spectacle, excessive emotions, and above all, the characters' ambiguity and rebelliousness. In addition to insights from studies on comics, monsters, and Romanticism, the book also engages w...
Inks: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society
European journal of American studies, 2015
Books by Maaheen Ahmed
Strong Bonds: Child-animal Relationships in Comics, 2020
My chapter, "The Maternal Arf!: Raising Canines in the Roaring Twenties in Harold Gray’s Little O... more My chapter, "The Maternal Arf!: Raising Canines in the Roaring Twenties in Harold Gray’s Little Orphan Annie," looks at the shifts in childhood/girlhood in the 1920s through Annie's relationship with Sandy. While Annie gains agency to critique adult standards and sensibilities, Sandy domesticates Annie to a degree so that she can fit within those standards.
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Call for Papers by Maaheen Ahmed
Authorship, 2017
The comic, recently legitimized through the graphic novel phenomenon while remaining anchored in ... more The comic, recently legitimized through the graphic novel phenomenon while remaining anchored in popular culture, can provide unique insights into issues surrounding authorship. Although comics scholarship has explored autobiographical comics and the strategies for self-fashioning of individual canonized comics artists and writers, the complex and mutating concept of comic book authorship remains by and large overlooked.
Articles and Book Chapters by Maaheen Ahmed
Unfolding during the Second World War Achtung Zelig! adopts a mode of
narration that is both fant... more Unfolding during the Second World War Achtung Zelig! adopts a mode of
narration that is both fantastic and absurd. The comic not only reflects
the issues surrounding the representation of the unimaginable and real
horrors of the Holocaust but it also exemplifies the presence and
functioning of ‘media memories’ or memories of specific cultural
productions as well as media and the performing arts (circus, theatre).
This article examines the functioning, particularly the generation of
connotations, of the key media memories of the carnivalesque, Art
Spiegelman's Maus, Horst Rosenthal's Mickey au camp de Gurs and
Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator in Achtung Zelig!
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Editor Maaheen Ahmed has made this anthology open source, and the entire collection is uploaded here. Enjoy!
Call for Papers by Maaheen Ahmed
Articles and Book Chapters by Maaheen Ahmed
narration that is both fantastic and absurd. The comic not only reflects
the issues surrounding the representation of the unimaginable and real
horrors of the Holocaust but it also exemplifies the presence and
functioning of ‘media memories’ or memories of specific cultural
productions as well as media and the performing arts (circus, theatre).
This article examines the functioning, particularly the generation of
connotations, of the key media memories of the carnivalesque, Art
Spiegelman's Maus, Horst Rosenthal's Mickey au camp de Gurs and
Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator in Achtung Zelig!
Editor Maaheen Ahmed has made this anthology open source, and the entire collection is uploaded here. Enjoy!
narration that is both fantastic and absurd. The comic not only reflects
the issues surrounding the representation of the unimaginable and real
horrors of the Holocaust but it also exemplifies the presence and
functioning of ‘media memories’ or memories of specific cultural
productions as well as media and the performing arts (circus, theatre).
This article examines the functioning, particularly the generation of
connotations, of the key media memories of the carnivalesque, Art
Spiegelman's Maus, Horst Rosenthal's Mickey au camp de Gurs and
Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator in Achtung Zelig!