Eleventh Global Studies Conference

Abstract

An archive of Kinshasa comic art tell us plenty about psychic dimensions and idioms of distress, and surely at a local urbane level. How these same subjectivities from ca. 1985-2002 open, methodologically, access to a register that is more global needs to be faced with serious hermeneutics of suspicion. The most powerful images relate more to long durations in religious imaginations than to the global nature of this long Mobutu moment. The global lies more in the wishful thinking of the scholar, than in subjectivities of persons pressed between the national, the urban, and the domestic, even if fantasies of glamorous the metropolitan worlds of Paris and Belgium, sneak in and require analysis as well.