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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Art Spiegelman"”.
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Adler, Asterios, & Maus
… by David Mazzuchelli and <em>Maus</em> by Art Spiegelman- how these ideas can be used to understand ourselves. It intensely zeroes in on specific moments of visual language shift. Some of these change range from simple elements like color or line weight or more complex elements like visual …
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Unbound: An Origin Story
… I choose to frame my academic practice as ‘artistic inquiry', for it is aimed at asking critical questions, rather than providing definitive answers. For this end, I generate a lexicon of visual iconography, a strategy which, in the words of art scholar Daniel Morris, enables the work to …
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"Like Their Lives Depended On It": The Role of Comics in Subverting Anti-Arab and Islamophobic Discourse
… It seeks to address the following questions in particular: how does the medium of comics interpellate subjects regarding the Western discursive formation that conflates Arab, Muslim, and terrorist? What does the medium of comics afford creators in subverting dominant discourses that dehumanize …
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When Facts Become Figures: Figurative Dynamics in Youth Holocaust Literature
… Holocaust literature as time propels authors farther away from the event itself. My first chapter demonstrates the narrative flexibility of works written during the Second World War by exploring figurative experimentation in Anne Frank’s diary, Yankev Glatshteyn’s Emil and Karl, and the …
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Spelling violation: writing bodies from the margins
… era poetry to present day comics, I seek particular strategies of those who create within language that has proved potently injurious to them. These are writers shaped by material and linguistic violation---sexism, homophobia, political and military repression, artistic and economic …
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The invention of the graphic novel: underground comix and corporate aesthetics
… novel. This format was invented in fits and starts throughout the twentieth century, and I argue throughout this dissertation that only by examining the nuances of the publishing history of twentieth-century comics can we fully understand the process by which the graphic novel emerged. In …
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Truth Games: Fact, Fiction, and Performance in British Autobiographical Comics
… where the focus is his individual life, in particular the story of his personality’ (1989, p.4). On Autobiography built on Lejeune’s earlier writing, particularly his theory of the Autobiographical Pact (1974), in which the author and reader enter an implicit agreement where the author tells …