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Camus, Cyril. "How Bugs, Monarchs and Trees Shape Human Fate and Experience in Peter Kuper’s Diario de Oaxaca and Ruins." Travel Writing and Environmental Awareness. Ed. Françoise Besson. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publ. 2023. 273–88. Added by: joachim (14/08/2026, 16:47) Last edited by: joachim (14/08/2026, 16:47) |
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| Resource type: Book Chapter Language: en: English Published ID no. (ISBN etc.): 978-1-5275-1287-0 BibTeX citation key: Camus2023 Email resource to friend View all bibliographic details  |
Categories: General Keywords: "Diario de Oaxaca", "Ruins", Animal, Ecology, Kuper. Peter, Travelogue, USA Creators: Besson, Camus Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publ. (Newcastle upon Tyne) Collection: Travel Writing and Environmental Awareness |
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This article focuses on the relationship with the environment (sometimes "anthropocentric", sometimes "biocentric" or at least "lococentric" (notions borrowed from US ecocritic Lawrence Buell)), which is developed in two graphic works that American comics author and cartoonist Peter Kuper created about his stay in Mexico from 2006 to 2008: the real-life sketchbook journal "Diario de Oaxaca" (2009), and the fictional graphic novel "Ruins" (2015). This reflection involves, among other things, an analysis of images, and in particular the use of graphic saturation, particularly on a thematic level (with the role given to animals and plants in general, to “bugs” in particular) in two graphic narratives aimed at immersing the reader in the colorful and vibrant and teeming world of Mexico as Kuper experienced it.
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