Pub Date : 2023-06-04DOI: 10.1080/21504857.2023.2220392
Trevor F. Anthony
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Pub Date : 2023-05-31DOI: 10.1080/21504857.2023.2218906
A. Joseph, Smita Jha
ABSTRACT The question of Tibetan refugees retains a unique matrix in world history. Though many Tibetans have fled from their motherland and settled in various parts of the world, they still believe themselves to be Tibetan citizens. Aaniya Asrani, through her three-part graphic non-fiction series Portraits of Exile, looks at the lives of Tibetans in exile residing in Bylakuppe. It is a geoGraphic novel that combines the spatial qualities of comics with geographical methods and is the first graphic narrative produced in India concerning the Tibetan experience. Asrani uses landscapes as fabrics for expressing the truth of refugeehood, and cultural trauma recalled through individual experiences. The paper attempts to look at Asrani’s mapping project from the perspective of Geohumanities; her use of maps, structuring of landscapes, and assertion of identities is looked upon using the lens of narrative cartography, cultural geography, and place identity, respectively.
{"title":"Lands that make us: decoding maps, landscapes, and identities in Aaniya Asrani’s Portraits of Exile","authors":"A. Joseph, Smita Jha","doi":"10.1080/21504857.2023.2218906","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21504857.2023.2218906","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The question of Tibetan refugees retains a unique matrix in world history. Though many Tibetans have fled from their motherland and settled in various parts of the world, they still believe themselves to be Tibetan citizens. Aaniya Asrani, through her three-part graphic non-fiction series Portraits of Exile, looks at the lives of Tibetans in exile residing in Bylakuppe. It is a geoGraphic novel that combines the spatial qualities of comics with geographical methods and is the first graphic narrative produced in India concerning the Tibetan experience. Asrani uses landscapes as fabrics for expressing the truth of refugeehood, and cultural trauma recalled through individual experiences. The paper attempts to look at Asrani’s mapping project from the perspective of Geohumanities; her use of maps, structuring of landscapes, and assertion of identities is looked upon using the lens of narrative cartography, cultural geography, and place identity, respectively.","PeriodicalId":53588,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43952618","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-05-27DOI: 10.1080/21504857.2023.2218487
Katarzyna Machała
ABSTRACT To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, long considered an American classic and one of the most beloved books for adolescents, has raised much controversy since its publication in 1960. Its adaptation as a graphic novel by Fordham and Lee offers a reinterpretation of the story. It highlights the racial tensions and social inequality, and it shows the consequences of isolation and marginalisation of characters along the lines of race, gender and class, but it does so through the lens of entrapment. These motifs are shown in the panel structure, the choice of colours and the framing of individual panels. The refreshed version better fits the changed sociopolitical circumstances and it better reflects the expectations of a new generation of readers, reaching for the story over sixty years later.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-27DOI: 10.1080/21504857.2023.2216766
Bhavya Rattan
{"title":"Bhimayana- Unveiling Reality of Caste System in India through Gond Art","authors":"Bhavya Rattan","doi":"10.1080/21504857.2023.2216766","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21504857.2023.2216766","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53588,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44080436","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-05-24DOI: 10.1080/21504857.2023.2217241
Vera J. Camden, Valentino L. L. Zullo
{"title":"“Something happened”: an interview with Lynda Barry","authors":"Vera J. Camden, Valentino L. L. Zullo","doi":"10.1080/21504857.2023.2217241","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21504857.2023.2217241","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53588,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43970306","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-05-21DOI: 10.1080/21504857.2023.2210200
C. Giuliani
ABSTRACT The article investigates three comic books written and illustrated by Ciaj Rocchi and Matteo Demonte, namely Primavere e autunni [Springs and autumns] (2015), Chinamen. Un secolo di cinesi a Milano [Chinamen. A century of Chinese people in Milan] (2017), and La macchina zerø. Mario Tchou e il primo computer Olivetti [Machine zero. Mario Tchou and the first Olivetti computer] (2021). The three texts provide graphic accounts of the establishment of a Chinese community in Italy using biographic narrations. The article analyses the three comics and their paratextual apparatuses, focusing on the authors’ documentarist approach, the ways in which personal biographies are embedded in the story of Italy’s resident Chinese community and in the history of Italy, and finally on the comics’ intergenerational and diasporic testimonial value. Drawing on Hirsch’s articulation of postmemory, on Mickwitz’s analysis of comics as documentaries and archives, and on Nabizadeh’s emphasis on comics as alternate narratives and memories, the article argues that Rocchi and Demonte’s comic books while narrating private stories provide a visual representation of the history of modern Italy as grounded in transnational connections and are inherently multicultural.
摘要本文调查了由Ciaj Rocchi和Matteo Demonte撰写并绘制插图的三本漫画书，即Primavere e autunni[春天和秋天]（2015），Chinamen。Un secolo di cinesi a Milano[Chinamen.a century of Chinese people in Milan]（2017）和La macchina zerø。Mario Tchou e il primo电脑Olivetti[零号机器。Mario Tcou和第一台Olivetti电脑]（2021）。这三篇文章通过传记叙述，生动地描述了在意大利建立华人社区的过程。本文分析了这三部漫画及其副文本装置，重点讨论了作者的文献主义方法，个人传记嵌入意大利华人社区故事和意大利历史的方式，以及漫画的代际和流散证明价值。借鉴赫希对后记忆的阐述，米克维茨对漫画作为纪录片和档案的分析，以及纳比扎德对漫画作为替代叙事和记忆的强调，文章认为，Rocchi和Demonte的漫画书在讲述私人故事的同时，提供了现代意大利历史的视觉再现，这些历史植根于跨国联系，本质上是多元文化的。
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Pub Date : 2023-05-15DOI: 10.1080/21504857.2023.2213306
Shrabanee Khatai, S. Ladsaria
{"title":"On demystifying the consumerist bubble and dismantling the obsession with superheroes: an interview with comic artist Appupen","authors":"Shrabanee Khatai, S. Ladsaria","doi":"10.1080/21504857.2023.2213306","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21504857.2023.2213306","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53588,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42075374","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-05-01DOI: 10.1080/21504857.2023.2207629
Abhilasha Gusain, Smita Jha
ABSTRACT The ability of graphic narratives to ensure reader-participation creates a visual dialogue between the narrative and the readers and makes them hospitable to the story at hand. The readers become active participants, which brings in the question of ethics, as the passive gaze is converted into empathy and identification. Such a reading encourages a reassessment of the perceived differences between the ‘I’ and the ‘other’ and aims to reduce such a gap. This paper, therefore, discusses the idea of empathy and ethics vis-à-vis the strategies and techniques employed in the graphic narratives to encourage reader-participation and make them sensitive to the sufferings of the ‘others’. The texts under analysis include Clément Baloup’s Vietnamese Memories: Leaving Saigon and Vietnamese Memories: Little Saigon, representing the migrant stories. Such experiences require a hospitable audience and the graphic practices of the texts play a crucial role in making the readers empathic to the life narratives of the ‘others’.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-26DOI: 10.1080/21504857.2023.2202871
Vera J. Camden, Valentino L. L. Zullo
{"title":"“I’m reminding us of where we came from”: an interview with Nick Sousanis","authors":"Vera J. Camden, Valentino L. L. Zullo","doi":"10.1080/21504857.2023.2202871","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21504857.2023.2202871","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53588,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43657122","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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