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Whitlock, Gillian. "Autographics: The Seeing “I” of the Comics." Modern Fiction Studies 52. (2006): 965–79. Added by: joachim (7/20/09, 1:29 AM) Last edited by: joachim (3/14/16, 3:42 AM) |
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| Resource type: Journal Article Language: en: English Peer reviewed DOI: 10.1353/mfs.2007.0013 BibTeX citation key: Whitlock2006 Email resource to friend View all bibliographic details  |
Categories: General Keywords: "In the Shadow of No Towers", "Persepolis", 9/11, Autobiography, France, Iran, Satrapi. Marjane, Spiegelman. Art, USA Creators: Whitlock Collection: Modern Fiction Studies |
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Recently Marianne Hirsch has argued it is necessary to think anew about words and images and their expressivity in the specific cultural and historical context of the ‘war on terror’. Here Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis and Art Spiegelman’s In the Shadow of No Towers are read in terms of ‘autographics’: the distinctive technology and aesthetics of life narrative that emerges in the comics. Unique mediations of cultural difference occur in the grammar of comics, which make demands on the reader to navigate across gutters and frames, and shuttle between words and images, in an active process of imaginative engagement with others.
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