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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"graphic narratives"”.
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Memoirs of My Vulva: An Exploration of Female Genitalia as Figures in Autobiographical Graphic Narratives
… the realms of feminist visual arts and autobiographical graphic narratives. Anchored in Simone de Beauvoir’s Le Deuxième Sexe (The Second Sex) and drawing upon the phenomenological perspectives of Husserl and Merleau-Ponty, the study investigates the dynamics of women's lived experiences. By …
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Exploring the pedagogical potential of graphic novels in developing Grade 7 students’ multiliteracy skills in St. Vincent and the Grenadines
This thesis explored the pedagogical potential of graphic novel texts through a case study of their use to develop 98 Grade 7 students’ multiliteracy skills in three classrooms in one school in St. Vincent and the Grenadines. Pedagogical practices in these classrooms had not previously included …
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Complicating the Single Story: A Visual Analysis of Images of Forced Migrants
… and examine how they respond to the dominant narratives produced in the mainstream. My study asks the following questions: how do refugees and forced migrants use narrative and images to create representations of their migration experiences? How do such creative works respond to and resist the …
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Examining the Use of Technology and Non-Traditional Texts in the Contemporary ELA Classroom
… whether they be in the form of video or film, graphic narratives, podcasts, tweets, memes, infographics, etc., is being evaluated against the common core and state standards, and what skills students in the ELA classroom should be learning. This paper evaluates these non-traditional texts as …
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Body image/imagining bodies: Trauma, control, and healing in graphic memoirs about anorexia
… decade, there has been a significant increase of graphic narratives focusing on the intersection of comics and medicine, a subgenre known as graphic medicine. These memoirs, known as graphic pathographies, are written from those who interact with disease in various capacities from patient, to …
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Laughing in the Wrong Places: Daniel Clowes and the Danger of Nostalgia
… downfall. Focusing on Daniel Clowes’ latest graphic novel <em>Monica </em>as a case study, I demonstrate how graphic stories like this seek to reflect rather than interpret, and are often more closely aligned to the creator’s biography than an attempt at broad strokes or political pandering. …
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Reading Nation in Translation: The Spectral Transnationality of the Malaysian Racial Imaginary
… of signification to another. Through analyses of graphic narratives, novels and films, I consider how various modes of translation are used in these texts both to articulate a common national identity that unifies these groups, and, at the same time, to maintain their racialized distinctions. I …
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The invention of the graphic novel: underground comix and corporate aesthetics
… explores what I term the invention of the graphic novel, or more specifically, the process by which stories told in comics (or graphic narratives) form became longer, more complex, concerned with deeper themes and symbolism, and formally more coherent, ultimately requiring a new publication …
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Picturing the unspeakable: Trauma, memory, and visuality in contemporary comics
… the centrality of trauma studies in comics and graphic narratives, as well as the centrality of visuality—that is, how we see and how we understand what we see—in trauma studies. Moving away from a model of literary trauma studies that focuses on “the unspeakable,” this dissertation proposes …
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Tabletop Role-Playing Games and the Actual Play Show: Author, Audience, and Adaptation
… examines how popular actual play shows and their graphic adaptations engage with these elements to create their narratives. This examination indicates that TRPGs create complex author-webs where each participant is both author and audience, and this influence pushes actual play shows and further …
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Interlayering the marginalized: remembering Turkey's founding in contemporary narratives in Turkey and France
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2025-05-01
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Strategies of Adaptation: Constructing <i>Gōkan</i> in Late-Edo Japan
Towards the end of the Edo period (1603–1868), one of the driving forces behind the construction—and reconstruction—of stories in commercial publishing was adaptation. This dissertation investigates the late-Edo system of literary production and consumption, and interrogates the mentalities behind …