Eeva Langeveld | Imperial Pasts in Contemporary Comics: Interrogating German and Dutch Colonialism through Word and Image

Eeva Langeveld | Imperial Pasts in Contemporary Comics: Interrogating German and Dutch Colonialism through Word and Image | Radboud University, Radboud Institute for Culture & History | promotor: Prof Michael Boyden, Prof Frank Mehring, Dr Doro Wiese (Radboud University) | 1 March 2023 – 1 March 2028

Eeva Langeveld’s project investigates how contemporary comics challenge the dominant cultural archives of colonialism in the Netherlands and Germany. Based on the method of cultural analysis, her research mainly focuses on graphic novels, educational comics, and webcomics. Comparing the Netherlands and Germany allows for a study of transnational discourses and national specificities in these two countries that have significantly different colonial pasts but overlapping memories of it today. The project’s aim is to contribute to postcolonial debates by paying attention to new and productive graphic interventions in the cultural archive.