Migration: Crossing Borders in Graphic Enactments

This chapter focuses on contemporary graphic novels that enact the practices related to the porosity of the US–Mexican border in combination with the traumatic aspects of migration. Despite their common focus on the spatial representation, most novels, including Ruins by Kuper (2015) and Feeding Ground by Lang, Lapinski and Mangun (2011), turn into creative mono- and multilingual narratives where the use of English prevails. Others, such as Tan’s The Arrival (2006), become a wordless depiction in which pictograms and other graphics establish an unsettling relationship between characters and readers.

ISBN:9788215042411

Jaar van publicatie:2021

Toegankelijkheid:Open