Constructing East Asians in a European comic book series

IF 0.2 4区 社会学 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY Chinese Semiotic Studies Pub Date : 2023-05-01 DOI:10.1515/css-2023-2004
Arezoo Adibeik
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Abstract This study focuses on the British English version of Hergé’s The Adventures of Tintin, a series of adventure comics created from 1929 to 1976. The series became increasingly popular throughout the mid-twentieth century and remains so even to the present day. However, it is still a subject of intrigue and controversy for many scholars due to the alleged racist/ethnic stereotypes in this series in terms of the visual representations and narratives. This paper explores the construction of the most frequently occurring non-European ethnic groups in the Tintin series, the East Asians, focusing on selected character roles regarding their functions, ethnicity, and dispersion throughout different narrative plots in three volumes where they were depicted. To that end, this research integrates Vladimir Propp’s narrative analysis and Martin Reisigl and Ruth Wodak’s discourse historical approach to critical discourse studies, while drawing on parts of Theo van Leeuwen’s social semiotic model in the analysis of images as well as Teun A. van Dijk’s strategies of positive-Self and negative Others presentation. The findings show some idiosyncrasies in terms of East Asians’ distinctive national identities and the dynamicity between the macro-strategies of positive Self versus negative Other representations in the series while touching on the concept of “internal Others.”
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在欧洲漫画系列中塑造东亚人
摘要本研究以赫格瑞格创作于1929年至1976年的冒险漫画《丁丁历险记》的英英版为研究对象。这个系列在整个二十世纪中期变得越来越受欢迎,直到今天仍然如此。然而,对于许多学者来说,它仍然是一个阴谋和争议的主题,因为在视觉表现和叙事方面,该系列中所谓的种族主义/民族刻板印象。本文探讨了丁丁系列中最常见的非欧洲族群东亚人的建构,重点关注了在三卷书中描述的不同叙事情节中所选择的人物角色,包括他们的功能、种族和分散。为此,本研究将Vladimir Propp的叙事分析和Martin Reisigl和Ruth Wodak的话语历史方法整合到批判话语研究中,同时借鉴了Theo van Leeuwen在图像分析中的社会符号学模型以及Teun A. van Dijk的积极自我和消极他者呈现策略。研究结果揭示了东亚人独特的民族认同的一些特质,以及在涉及“内部他者”概念时,积极自我与消极他者表征的宏观策略之间的动态关系。
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