Mardi 24 avril 2024 18h salle 126 Bâtiment Saint-Charles 1
Double séance : Séminaires Nancy Pedri (PMU, professeure à Memorial University of NewFoundLand au Canada) "Pointing to, and away from, Media, or How Intermediality Impacts the Reading of Comics" & Eleonor Ty (PMU, professeure à Wilfrid Laurier University au Canada) "Our Dreams, Ourselves: 21st Century Asian American Graphic Memoirs”
Séminaires animés respectivement par Laurence Petit (EMMA) et Claire Omhovère (EMMA)
Nancy Pedri : "Pointing to, and away from, Media, or How Intermediality Impacts the Reading of Comics"
While comics scholars have examined the visual storytelling techniques and devices of comics – including page-layout, the use of repeated images, the gutter, the angle of vision, and others – the referencing or inclusion of different media has largely been ignored. I set out to explore how comics narration physically and conceptually moves between and across media boundaries, evoking different modes of representation to promote unique expressions and configurations of meaning.
Starting from the understanding that comics stand to be viewed productively not so much as a single, mixed, or even hybrid medium set in more than one semiotic mode, but as an “inherently intermedial form” (Kimmich 88), I will draw from several examples to examine the impact on reading of the interaction of different media and their conceptual and physical fusion in comics. I adopt an intermedial approach to examine intermediality in several comics. Focusing on how comics narration exists within a larger past and present media landscape, my presentation will be guided by the following questions: What type of reading do comics encourage? If, as I believe, comics’ intermedial storytelling practices asks readers to simultaneously draw from their knowledge of, and real-world experience with, other media, and delve deeper into the storyworld and the experiences of its characters, do those intermedial practices create a narrative situation that challenges popular theorizations of comics literacy?
References
Kimmich, Matt. “Disorienting Visualisations: Adapting Paul Auster’s City of Glass.” SPELL: Swiss Papers in English Language and Literature, vol.21, 2008. pp.87-104.
Short Bio
Nancy Pedri is Professor of English at Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador, where she has taught since 2006. She is an award-winning author and has published extensively in the fields of comics studies and word and image studies, including photography in literature. Her latest monographs on comics, Experiencing Visual Storyworlds: Focalization in Comics with Silke Horstkotte (Ohio State UP) and A Concise Dictionary of Comics (UP of Mississippi) were published in 2022.
Eleonor Ty : “Our Dreams, Ourselves: 21st Century Asian American Graphic Memoirs”
In Our Dreams, Ourselves I examine three graphic memoirs by 1.5 and second-generation Asian American and Asian Canadian creators who are exploring their ethnic and gender identities, as well as their professional aspirations. I argue that in contemporary US and Canadian society, many children of Asian immigrants struggle to separate their own wishes from that of their parents. Because of parental and cultural pressures, guilt, feelings of responsibility and indebtedness, children of Asian American parents often suppress their own dreams for the sake of pleasing their family. In addition, they experience misidentification, stereotyping, and alienation from the society outside.
In this presentation, I will look at three graphic memoirs: Malaka Gharib’s I Was Their American Dream, about the experiences of growing up mixed-race Filipina and Egyptian; Kimiko Tobimatsu and Keet Geniza’s Kimiko Does Cancer, about the challenges of a queer woman who is diagnosed with cancer; and Laura Gao’s Messy Roots, created during the pandemic when anti-Chinese sentiments were high, to show how comics enables these authors to express their uneasiness with the ghosts within them, find ways to escape, and discover their own desires. Their graphic memoirs reveal the pain, pressures, and pleasures of living as minoritized and underrepresented subjects.
Eleanor Ty, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and Fulbright Canada alumna, is Professor of English at Wilfrid Laurier University. She has published on life writing, graphic novel, Asian North American, and 18th -Century British literature. She is author of Asianfail: Narratives of Disenchantment and the Model Minority (U of Illinois P, 2017); Unfastened: Globality and Asian North American Narratives (U of Minnesota P, 2010), and The Politics of the Visible in Asian North American Narratives (U Toronto P 2004). Beyond the Icon: Asian American Graphic Narratives (Ohio State UP, 2022) won the Comics Studies Society’s 2022 Prize for Edited Book Collection.
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