Identity Construction in Graphic Life Narratives by Aline
Kominsky Crumb and Katie Green

J 2024

Identity Construction in Graphic Life Narratives by Aline Kominsky Crumb and Katie Green

FONIOKOVÁ, Zuzana

Základní údaje

Originální název

Identity Construction in Graphic Life Narratives by Aline Kominsky Crumb and Katie Green

Autoři

FONIOKOVÁ, Zuzana

Vydání

The Comics Grid : Journal of Comics Scholarship, 2024, 2048-0792

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Článek v odborném periodiku

Obor

60205 Literary theory

Stát vydavatele

Velká Británie a Severní Irsko

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Odkazy

plný text

Impakt faktor

Impact factor: 0.400

Označené pro přenos do RIV

Ano

Kód RIV

RIV/00216224:14210/24:00139348

Organizační jednotka

Filozofická fakulta

Klíčová slova anglicky

autobiographical comics; coherence; Lighter than My Shadow; self; self-interpretation

Štítky

rivok

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno

Změněno: 28. 2. 2025 09:39, Bc. Alena Kmochová

Anotace

V originále

Bringing together comics analysis, autobiography studies, and narrative theory, this article aims to analyse different ways in which graphic life narratives expose the illusion of a stable and unified autobiographical subject. The first part focuses on the perceived split between the present and past self and its manifestation in autobiographical discourse as the narrating-I and narrated-I, exploring different methods autobiographical comics employ to foreground the fragmented self and to favour the perspective of the past or of the present. The next part analyses the interplay between the narrating-I and the narrated-I in a short comic story from Aline Kominsky Crumb’s Need More Love (2007). Not only does this story challenge the divide between the two positions of the self, it also illustrates the view of identity as a performative construct. The final part of this article offers an interpretation of Katie Green’s Lighter than My Shadow (2013), focusing on the way this graphic memoir enacts narrative self-construction as an interpretative and meaning-making process that can facilitate healing. While this process typically involves finding coherence and continuity in the narrated experience, the memoir also reveals that such coherence-building has its limitations.

Návaznosti

GA21-12454S, projekt VaV

Název: Fakta a fikce v životních příbězích: narativní strategie autobiografického psaní

Investor: Grantová agentura ČR, Fakta a fikce v životních příbězích: narativní strategie autobiografického psaní

Citovat

FONIOKOVÁ, Zuzana. Identity Construction in Graphic Life Narratives by Aline Kominsky Crumb and Katie Green. The Comics Grid : Journal of Comics Scholarship. 2024, roč. 14, č. 1, s. 1-18. ISSN 2048-0792. Dostupné z: https://doi.org/10.16995/cg.11034.

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FONIOKOVÁ, Zuzana. Identity Construction in Graphic Life Narratives by Aline Kominsky Crumb and Katie Green. \textit{The Comics Grid : Journal of Comics Scholarship}. 2024, roč.~14, č.~1, s.~1-18. ISSN~2048-0792. Dostupné z: https://doi.org/10.16995/cg.11034.

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