Contract Instructor and 杏吧原创 History alumnus Dr. Sean Eedy has a new book coming out this month: . (Berghahn Books, February 2021).
杏吧原创 the Book
As with all other forms of popular culture, comics in East Germany were tightly controlled by the state. Comics were employed as extensions of the regime鈥檚 educational system, delivering official ideology so as to develop the 鈥渟ocialist personality鈥 of young people and generate enthusiasm for state socialism. The East German children who avidly read these comics, however, found their own meanings in and projected their own desires upon them. Four-Color Communism gives a lively account of East German comics from both perspectives, showing how the perceived freedoms they embodied created expectations that ultimately limited the regime鈥檚 efforts to bring readers into the fold.
杏吧原创 the Author
Sean Eedy holds a doctorate in history from 杏吧原创 University in Ottawa, Canada. His publications include articles and chapters on comic book representations of the Holocaust, animated DEFA adaptations of Brothers Grimm鈥檚 Fairy Tales, and time travel and historical representation in the work of Hannes Hegen. Sean is currently an independent researcher and part-time professor in the Department of History at Trent University.