French-language comics terminology and referencing -- Representation of history and politics in French-language comics and graphic novels: an introduction / Mark McKinney -- pt. 1. History, politics, and the Bande dessinâee tradition. Trapped in the past: anti-semitism in Hergâe's Flight 714 / Hugo Frey -- Re-imaging heroes/rewriting history: the pictures and texts in children's newspapers in France, 1939-45 / Clare Tufts -- The concept of "patrimoine" in contemporary Franco-Belgian comics production / Bart Beaty -- pt. 2. Political reportage and globalism in Bandes dessinâees. Citizenship and city spaces: Bande dessinâee as reportage / Ann Miller -- Games without frontiers: the representation of politics and the politics of representation in Schuiten and Peeters's La frontiáere invisible / Fabrice Leroy -- pt. 3. Facing colonialism and imperialism in Bandes dessinâees. The Algerian War in Road to America (Baru, Thâevenet, and Ledran) / Mark McKinney -- The Congo drawn in Belgium / Pascal Lefáevre -- Distractions from history: redrawing ethnic trajectories in New Caledonia / Amanda Macdonald -- Textual absence, textual color: a journey through memory - Cosey's Saigon-Hanoi / Câecile Vernier Danehy -- pt. 4. A French cartoonist's perspective on the working class and Bandes dessinâees. The working class and comics: a French cartoonist's perspective / Baru.