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Arnold, Markus. "(Imagined) spaces of migration in contemporary graphic literature: From testimony and naturalism to fabulation and satire." PhiN, Beihefte 18 2019. Accessed 16Sept. 2026. <https://web.fu-berlin.de/phin/beiheft18/b18t12.pdf>. Added by: joachim (16/09/2026, 12:27) Last edited by: joachim (16/09/2026, 12:57) |
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Categories: General Keywords: Migration, Space Creators: Arnold Collection: PhiN, Beihefte |
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This article deals with the multifaceted and increasingly visible topic of migration in contemporary graphic literature. Selective readings of post-2000 works by Francophone and Anglophone authors (e.g. Jean-Philippe Stassen, Joe Sacco, Shaun Tan, Zabus & Hippolyte, Yvan Alagbé, and Bill) will give a critical insight into the artistic scope, the testimonial truthfulness, and the political significance of these graphic productions. Several main narrative modes and aesthetic strategies in these works – such as realist convention and testimony, stylisation and allegory, or experimental storytelling and satire – will be discussed. Further analysis will cover two major narrative and chronotopical elements: the dreamed spaces opened up by migration (in the sense of 'imagined hostlands'); and the complex loci of the contact and (hoped for) transit zones. Examining the recurrent scenographical properties of these fictions, their sensitive effects, and their identitarian and political implications will show potentials and capacities, but also possible shortcomings and pitfalls of representing migrant subjectivities through this mode of creative expression.
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