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Tufts, Clare. "Family History and Social History: Étienne Davodeau’s Reportage of Reality in Les Mauvaises gens." European Comic Art 1.(2008): 37–55. Added by: joachim (8/3/09, 7:30 PM) Last edited by: joachim (5/9/23, 7:36 PM) |
| Resource type: Journal Article Language: en: English Peer reviewed DOI: 10.3828/eca.1.1.4 BibTeX citation key: Tufts2008a Email resource to friend View all bibliographic details  |
Categories: General Keywords: "Les mauvaises gens", Comics Journalism, Davodeau. Étienne, France, Sociology Creators: Tufts Collection: European Comic Art |
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This article discusses a bande dessinée that recounts the life story of the artist’s parents, factory workers in a deeply conservative milieu who became trade union militants. The article is split into four sections. The first deals with techniques that reinforce the effect of documentary accuracy; the second examines how page layout adds symbolic effects and varies pace and perspective; the third analyses the complex chronology, in which there is not only a shifting between the time of narration and the time of the events recounted, but a further significant temporal displacement relating to the process of narration; the fourth considers the extent to which this biography is also necessarily autobiographical.
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