Broschiertes Buch

Comics and Migration

Representation and Other Practices

Herausgeber: Kauranen, Ralf; Nikkilä, Aura; Löytty, Olli

Beschreibung

Comics and human mobility have a long history of connections. This volume explores these entanglements with a focus on both how comics represent migration and what applied uses comics have in relation to migration.

Autor

Ralf Kauranen is a sociologist and comics scholar affiliated to the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Turku, Finland. He led the project "Comics and Migration: Belonging, Narration, Activism", funded by the Kone Foundation and located at the Department of Finnish Literature, University of Turku, in 2018-2021. Olli Löytty is an adjunct professor at the University of Turku, Finland. His research focuses on postcolonialism, nationalism, multilingualism, and representations of cultural encounters in literature. He is currently working on the project "Literature and Reading in the Era of Climate Crisis" at the University of Helsinki. Aura Nikkilä is a doctoral researcher in art history at the University of Turku, Finland. Nikkilä's doctoral project concerns the role of photography in migration-themed comics. She has published on multilingualism and transnationalism in comics as well as on empathy and activism in relation to graphic narratives. Anna Vuorinne is a doctoral researcher in the Department of Comparative Literature, University of Turku, Finland. Her dissertation examines the conventions of human rights narration in contemporary German comics depicting migration. In her publications on comics, she has also written about the questions of gender, sexuality, and feminism.

Produktdetails

• Global Perspectives in Comics Studies
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. März 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 502g
• ISBN-13: 9781032184579
• ISBN-10: 1032184574
• Artikelnr.: 66715376