The smartphone aesthetics of mobility in Kate Evans’s Threads and Reinhard Kleist’s An Olympic Dream

Q2 Social Sciences

Crossings Pub Date : 2021-10-01 DOI:10.1386/cjmc_00048_1

E. Nijdam

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Abstract

In the last decade, comics and graphic novels on migration have become an essential forum for representing refugee experience. This emergent genre of graphic narration not only offers the representation of migrant hardships from the subjective perspective of refugees, artists and volunteers working in the community, comics on the refugee crisis also develop empathy and awareness for the plight of migrants internationally by giving a voice to countless nameless ‐ and often faceless ‐ migrants, whose images circulate widely in the media. Moreover, comic artists working on refugee and migrant subjects are inventing new visual languages to express these individuals’ perilous journeys from war-torn regions of the Middle East, Africa and Asia to European soil, incorporating the very media technologies essential for migration ‐ and its representation ‐ into the comics form. Looking at the smartphone and social media aesthetics of two comics on global forced migration, Kate Evans’s Threads: From the Refugee Crisis and Reinhard Kleist’s An Olympic Dream: The Story of Samia Yusuf Omar, this article assesses the significance of incorporating the technologies of migration into its representation.

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凯特·埃文斯(Kate Evans)的《Threads》和莱因哈德·克莱斯特(Reinhard Kleist)的《奥运梦》(An Olympic Dream)中智能手机的移动性美学

在过去十年中，关于移民的漫画和图画小说已成为代表难民经历的重要论坛。这种新兴的图形叙事类型不仅从难民、社区艺术家和志愿者的主观角度呈现了移民的苦难，有关难民危机的漫画也通过向无数无名(通常是默默无闻)移民发出声音，培养了对国际移民困境的同情和意识，他们的形象在媒体上广泛传播。此外，以难民和移民为主题的漫画艺术家正在发明新的视觉语言，以表达这些人从中东、非洲和亚洲饱受战争蹂躏的地区到欧洲土地的危险旅程，将对移民及其表现至关重要的媒体技术融入漫画形式。本文以凯特·埃文斯(Kate Evans)的《线索:来自难民危机》(Threads: From the Refugee Crisis)和莱因哈德·克莱斯特(Reinhard Kleist)的《奥林匹克梦:萨米亚·优素福·奥马尔的故事》(An Olympic Dream: the Story of Samia Yusuf Omar)这两部关于全球被迫移民的漫画的智能手机和社交媒体美学为例，评估了将移民技术融入其表现形式的重要性。

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Crossings Social Sciences-Cultural Studies

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期刊介绍： Crossings: Journal of Migration & Culture situates itself at the interface of Migration Studies and Cultural Studies. The terminology and key concepts in use in discourses on migration have yet to be sufficiently theorized or understood from theoretical perspectives linked to cultural studies, although migration is intrinsically linked to questions of culture. The course of cultures at both local and global levels is crucially affected by migratory movements. In turn, culture itself is turned migrant. This journal''s scope will be global, with a predominant focus on migration and culture from the latter half of the twentieth century to the present-day. Apart from the inclusion of refereed articles, Crossings: Journal of Migration and Culture will include a section of reviews of films, music, photography, exhibitions or books on migration-related topics, interviews with cultural practitioners who focus on migration-related topics, and oral histories of migrant cultural experiences.