{"id":20968,"date":"2021-02-10T14:37:59","date_gmt":"2021-02-10T19:37:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/?p=20968"},"modified":"2024-07-03T19:50:10","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T23:50:10","slug":"sean-eedys-new-book-four-color-communism-to-be-published-february-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/2021\/sean-eedys-new-book-four-color-communism-to-be-published-february-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Sean Eedy&#8217;s New Book &#8220;Four-Color Communism&#8221; to be Published February 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"160\" height=\"242\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/EedyFour-Color-160x242.jpg\" alt=\"book cover for Four-Color Communism book. \" class=\"wp-image-20969\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/EedyFour-Color-160x242.jpg 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/EedyFour-Color-240x363.jpg 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/EedyFour-Color-360x544.jpg 360w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/EedyFour-Color.jpg 397w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Contract Instructor and Carleton History alumnus Dr. <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/people\/sean-eedy\/\">Sean Eedy<\/a> has a new book coming out this month: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/title\/EedyFour-Color\">Four-Color Communism: Comic Books and Contested Power in the German Democratic Republic<\/a>.<\/em> (Berghahn Books, February 2021).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About the Book<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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\u2019s educational system, delivering official ideology so as to develop the \u201csocialist personality\u201d 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. <em>Four-Color Communism<\/em> 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\u2019s efforts to bring readers into the fold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About the Author<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sean Eedy holds a doctorate in history from Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. His publications include articles and chapters on comic book representations of the Holocaust, animated DEFA adaptations of Brothers Grimm\u2019s Fairy Tales, and time travel and historical representation in the work of Hannes Hegen.&nbsp; Sean is currently an independent researcher and part-time professor in the Department of History at Trent University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contract Instructor and Carleton History alumnus Dr. Sean Eedy has a new book coming out this month: Four-Color Communism: Comic Books and Contested Power in the German Democratic Republic. (Berghahn Books, February 2021). About the Book As with all other forms of popular culture, comics in East Germany were tightly controlled by the state. 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