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Kauranen, Ralf. "Visions of Queer Places: Migration and Utopia in Finnish Queer Comics." European Comic Art 15.(2022): 26–45. 
Added by: joachim (23/05/2022, 15:04)   
Resource type: Journal Article
Language: en: English
Peer reviewed
DOI: 10.3167/eca.2022.150103
BibTeX citation key: Kauranen2022
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Categories: General
Keywords: "Homo Line", "Life Outside the Circle", Finland, Gender, Hammar. Edith, Identity, Lehkonen. H-P, Webcomics
Creators: Kauranen
Collection: European Comic Art
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Abstract
This article discusses two queer comics from Finland in the 2010s, H-P Lehkonen’s Life Outside the Circle (2017–2018) and Edith Hammar’s Homo Line (2020), analysing them as identity work and acts of queer world-making. Both comics depict migration and foreground identity formation in relation to place. The analysis focuses on the intersectionality of queer identities, marked as minority positions with regard to power structures related to gender and sexuality—where a binary conception of gender and heteronormativity dominates, with systemic hierarchies related to place and different national and regional cultures. Utilising the genre conventions of romance and autobiography, the comics renegotiate hetero- and cis-normative identifications and envision alternative queer spatial formations.
  
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