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- Strömberg, Fredrik, Doktorand, 1968-
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Comics Studies in the Nordic Countries : Field or Discipline?
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Ingår i: Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics. - London : Taylor & Francis. - 2150-4857 .- 2150-4865. ; 7:2, s. 134-155
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The last few years have seen a flurry of academic activities on comics in the Nordic countries. But are we on the verge of establishing an independent field or a discipline of comics studies, or both? And if so, is this desirable? On an international level, comics studies have for some time been an intellectual field and can now be said to be on a pre-paradigmatic level as a discipline. In the Nordic countries, the field of comics studies has grown rapidly the last few years, but it is still very much dispersed, with researchers working at different departments and within a number of disciplines. There are tendencies towards a maturing into a more cohesive field, but this is a recent development. The establishing of a comics studies discipline, though keeping an open ‘rural mode’ of knowledge production to prevent a loss of the positive aspects of interdisciplinary research, would facilitate the possibilities for professors’ seats, journals, specific grants, recurring conferences and research libraries – and thus a more rapid growth of comics studies.
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- Strömberg, Fredrik, Doktorand, 1968-
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Schemata in the Graphic Novel Persepolis : Accommodation, Combination, Integration
- 2020
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Ingår i: European comic art. - Oxford : Berghahn Books. - 1754-3797 .- 1754-3800. ; 13:2, s. 91-119
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- It has repeatedly been suggested that the art in the graphic novel Persepolis by Iranian French artist Marjane Satrapi contains numerous connections to ancient Persian art forms, to the point of this becoming a 'truism', although the claim has not been subjected to in-depth analysis. The present formal analysis employs Gombrichian schema theory to identify visual elements in the graphic novel potentially connected to Persian visual cultures to discern if and how they might relate to their proposed influences and how they integrate with styles and visual conventions in comics. The results indicate that there are indeed connections, although integrated into the art form of comics through combination and accommodation, and that this reinforced the Persian theme of the graphic novel and potentially enriched the art form of comics.
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- Strömberg, Fredrik, Doktorand, 1968-
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‘Yo, Rag-Head!’ : Arab and Muslim Superheroes in American Comic Books after 9/11
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Ingår i: Amerikastudien. - Heidelberg : Universitätsverlag Winter. - 0340-2827. ; 56:4, s. 573-601
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The relationship between the United States and the Arab/Muslim world has atic, to say the least, and it has left its mark on American popular culture in general in particular. A small number of studies conducted in the 1980s and 1990s about of Arabs and Muslims in American comics have shown a profusion of negative a conspicuous absence of Arab and/or Muslim heroes. This essay revisits this amines the ways in which Arabs and Muslims have been portrayed in the most genres—the superhero comic book—since the terrorist attacks of September to understand how these comics communicate ideas and representations of Eastern/Muslim' to American readers, this essay conducts a critical discourse on the idea of the 'Oriental Other.' After 9/11, the number of characters who Arab Muslims, Arab Americans, and American Muslims, both male and female, devout and zealous to the privately and nominally religious, has increased noticeably. such characters seem to have been created to resist stereotypical or racist configurations abs and/or Muslims as terrorists, they nonetheless partake in the 'Othering' of American public discourse through stereotypes in both visual and verbal communication, thus often unintentionally reinforce rather than counteract stereotypes
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