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Michael, Olga. "Crossing, Conflict, and Diaspora in Cyprus and Beyond in Miranda Hoplaros and Lara Alphas’s The Sign-Maker." a/b: Auto/Biography Studies 35. (2020): 405–34. Added by: joachim (8/26/20, 6:40 PM) Last edited by: joachim (10/30/20, 3:13 PM) |
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| Resource type: Journal Article Language: en: English Peer reviewed DOI: 10.1080/08989575.2020.1741189 BibTeX citation key: Michael2020 Email resource to friend View all bibliographic details  |
Categories: General Keywords: "The Sign-Maker", Alphas. Lara, Cyprus, Documentary comics, Hoplaros. Miranda, Language, Postcolonialism, Space Creators: Michael Collection: a/b: Auto/Biography Studies |
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The Sign-Maker is a work of “graphic docufiction” that demonstrates how languages and signs reproduce conflict, colonial relations, and segregation. In addition, it foregrounds the function of spaces and monuments as “national topobiographies,” underscoring similarities between three different (post-)colonial areas. By highlighting maps and colonial uses of passports and passbooks, it also demonstrates its fictional characters’ diasporic fluidity and unrootedness.
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