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- Ashkenazi, Ofer, et al.
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Belonging in Auto|Biographical Comics : Narratives of Exile in the German Heimat
- 2020
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Ingår i: a/b. - London : Taylor & Francis. - 0898-9575 .- 2151-7290. ; 35:2, s. 331-357
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article analyzes the negotiations of belonging in three current documen-tary comics that examine aspects of German history mostly from biographicalor autobiographical perspectives. The authors argue that, using different nar-ration strategies, these comics present intricate interactions between placeand identity which shed new light on the contemporary identity discourse inand vis-a-vis Germany.
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- Ashkenazi, Ofer, et al.
(författare)
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Comics as Historiography
- 2018
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This paper considers the ways comics narratives with a documentary claim utilize sources and explain the use of sources to the readers. As case studies, we look into three graphic novels and their particular ways of informing readers about research methods that were employed for preparing the story and about the provenience of archival materials that were, directly or indirectly, quoted in the comics. The way a source is read and cited is crucial to its perception as capable to enhance our understanding of the historical reality it relates. Some genres of comic writing, such as journalistic and documentary comics, have palpably attained credibility and seem to be here to stay. Here, however, we are interested in comics that go distinctly further than journalism in their offer of eloquent arguments about certain historical realities. Accordingly, we focus on two examples of comics that can arguably participate in the academic discourse. To evaluate their academic reliability, in what follows we focus on the coding of history-related arguments in the generic grammar and visual iconography of comics. In particular, we emphasize the means in which these texts contemplate their sources and methods to establish such reliability. The aspiration of the authors to “be taken seriously” in their depictions of historical realities is crucial for the analysis of narrative comics as arguments about history. We claim that, by virtue of their distinctive coding of historical information—the combination of pictorial iconography, written texts and sophisticated narration techniques—comics authors can negotiate unique historical observations, which have the potential to enhance the knowledge and comprehension of the past beyond the limits of established academic writing.
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- Ashkenazi, Ofer, et al.
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Comics as Historiography
- 2019
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Ingår i: ImageTexT. - : Dept of English, University of Florida. - 1549-6732. ; 11:1
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper considers potential ways comics narratives with a documentary claim can participate in the academic discussion of history. Academic historiography constructs (normally literal, mainly text based) arguments about historical events through discussions of (often written) sources, with reference to and in dialog with other relevant positions (Evans, 2012). While comics narration and imagery does not conform to the conventions of academic historiography, we are interested in the possibility of a mutually beneficial dialog between the arguments, and the ways they are manifested, in certain comics narratives and the ones that constitute the academic discourse of history. The following analysis focuses on a precondition for such dialog: the utilization of sources, and the explanation of how these sources are used to the readers, in comics that claim to reliably portray and explicate aspects of historical reality . As case studies, we look into four different approaches to historical comics: two graphic novels, one chapter in a comics anthology, and an archaeological paper in comics format. We will investigate their particular ways of informing readers about research methods that were employed for preparing the story, and about the provenience of archival materials that were, directly or indirectly, quoted in the comics. An integral part of the historical argument that these works make respectively involves reflections on the attempt to understand reality; we will discuss at how these attempts are communicated, to evaluate their adherence to the expectations of academic historiography.
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- Dittmar, Jakob, et al.
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Negotiating Documentation in Comics
- 2018
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Ingår i: International Journal of Comic Art. - : Drexel hill. - 1531-6793. ; 20:1, s. 575-587
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- While comics have been established as primary sources in various fields of historical research—as well as in sociology and anthropology—their usability as secondary sources, i.e., as valid arguments that can be incorporated into scholars’ discourse—is much more contested. In this paper, we are looking into how comics with a documentary claim state and handle their sources. For this, we focus on a few current French and German graphic novels and their particular ways of informing readers about research methods that were employed for preparing the story and about the provenience of archival matter that was used to tell the story - or even quoted in text and image.
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