Transnationalizing Memories of Post/Socialism: Diasporic Graphic Lives

IF 0.4 3区文学 0 LITERATURE

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE STUDIES Pub Date : 2022-08-01 DOI:10.5325/complitstudies.59.3.0568

Ioana Luca

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abstract:The article focuses on The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain (Peter Sís, 2007) and Marzi (Sylvain Savoia and Marzena Sowa, 2004–2017), two widely translated autobiographical comics written in English and French, respectively, as an entry point into the afterlives of European state socialisms in global contexts. The author examines how Sís, a Czech-born illustrator and children book author, who defected to the United States, and Sowa, a Polish-born writer who left for France, remember their lives under state socialism, and how they make them legible to present-day transgenerational and transnational audiences. The author explores how comics, specifically the seriality, multimodality, and the meanings created at the intersection of texts and images, undermine the cultural scripts which inform the narratives of these two diasporic artists. By focusing on paratextual elements, the author also demonstrates that the transnational trajectories of the two works are path-dependent on mainstream tropes about state socialism. Lastly, given that the two comics feature internationally in school curricula and are adopted by teachers as important methodological tools, the author argues for the crucial importance of comics and life writing pedagogy when teaching graphic autobiographies about post/socialism.

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后/社会主义的跨国化记忆：双重图形生活

摘要：这篇文章聚焦于《墙：铁幕后的成长》（Peter SíS，2007）和《马尔齐》（Sylvain Savoia和Marzena Sowa，2004–2017），这两部分别用英语和法语写成的被广泛翻译的自传体漫画，作为在全球背景下进入欧洲国家社会主义后遗症的切入点。作者研究了叛逃到美国的捷克出生的插画家和儿童书籍作家SíS和前往法国的波兰出生的作家Sowa如何回忆他们在国家社会主义下的生活，以及他们如何让当今的跨性别和跨国观众能够阅读这些生活。作者探讨了漫画，特别是连续性、多模态以及在文本和图像的交叉点上创造的意义，是如何破坏为这两位散居艺术家的叙事提供信息的文化脚本的。作者还通过关注副文本元素，论证了两部作品的跨国轨迹是对国家社会主义主流比喻的路径依赖。最后，鉴于这两部漫画在学校课程中具有国际特色，并被教师视为重要的方法论工具，作者认为漫画和生活写作教学法在教授关于后社会主义的自传时至关重要。

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期刊介绍： Comparative Literature Studies publishes comparative articles in literature and culture, critical theory, and cultural and literary relations within and beyond the Western tradition. It brings you the work of eminent critics, scholars, theorists, and literary historians, whose essays range across the rich traditions of Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas. One of its regular issues every two years concerns East-West literary and cultural relations and is edited in conjunction with members of the College of International Relations at Nihon University. Each issue includes reviews of significant books by prominent comparatists.