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Le présent article étudie les dispositifs de certains romans graphiques à la lumière des concepts anthropologiques afin d’illustrer leur potentiel en tant qu’outil au service de la rencontre et de la contextualisation du regard de... more
The author introdusces reportage as a general genere, and then discusses comics reportage in relation to both other forms of this genere and to fiction comics. The roles of the author and the narrator are discussed throught several... more
This is an excerpt of an article published in International Journal of Comic Art, Vol. 15, No.1, 2013, 435-449.
Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics. Joe Sacco’s almost universally lauded comics frequently reveal issues and people that are overlooked or misrepresented in western media. Whether these are Palestinians, African immigrants in Malta,... more
A presente dissertação de mestrado aborda a história em quadrinhos e suas ferramentas gráfico-narrativas quando aplicadas a finalidades jornalísticas. A análise da obra de Joe Sacco – pioneiro dos livros-reportagem em quadrinhos – é feita... more
Joe Sacco’s graphic novels are often described as comics journalism, even though many of them evidence a distinctly historical method. This essay discusses the development of an engagement with the past in Sacco’s oeuvre and asserts that... more
Nos adentramos en las posibilidades de la novela gráfica como una plataforma discursiva de crítica social que reactualiza y tensa el otrora paradigma del arte comprometido. A partir de las ideas de Georges Didi-Huberman en Ante el tiempo,... more
Edward Said's praise of comics journalist Joe Sacco as a kind of “Marlow” (from Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness) is an analogy that reminds us of the contextualization of current affairs graphic novels in other media. While scholars and... more
This colloquium paper is an attempt to reflect my thoughts on stories, and telling thereof using visual sequential art as the media. It also briefly discusses my understanding of the art form and its parallel evolution over time, in... more
This article looks at instances where creators of nonfiction comics insert themselves into their works via avatar characters. Drawing on Bill Nichols's "modes of documentary film," the paper discusses instances of author avatars in the... more
Tesi di laurea triennale, corso di laurea in Lingue, Lettere e Culture comparate (classe L-10). Ricerca sulla possibilità di utilizzare opere fumettistiche come strumenti storiografici, atti a restituire un quadro più complesso di un dato... more
Trabajo de ayudantía en Seminario "Historieta para la comunicación popular" (UNC, FCC, 2016).
Although comic book characters can age, their memory from one date to another is not threatened by oblivion, or even by a deterioration of faculties that simply does not exist in the imaginary limbo of the white background of the page – a... more
This article is devoted to discussing the meaning and function of the depiction of war in graphic novels and its place in the creation of collective memory and historical truth. This proposed perspective is complementary to the study of... more
Please contact me if you want access to this book: laurikeveld@gmail.com This book mobilises the concept of kitsch to investigate the tensions around the representation of genocide in international graphic novels that focus on the... more
At the beginning of the 21st century, comics are a medium ‘on the rise’ in scholarship and in schools. This collection of essays, which emerged from a graduate student conference at TU Dortmund University, demonstrates their immense... more
O termo ‘jornalismo em quadrinhos’ é bastante recente, mas Agostini já fazia reportagens em HQ no Séc. XIX. E as relações entre quadrinhos e jornal são ainda muito mais amplas, profundas e duradouras. Uma fotorreportagem é, na verdade,... more
O objetivo deste trabalho é analisar o Jornalismo em Quadrinhos, estilo de produção jornalística recente que une as técnicas de montagem de reportagens com o grafismo das histórias em quadrinhos. Com atenção a detalhes e uso de práticas... more
Set against the devastating floods of 2008 in the Kosi region of North Bihar, India, 'The Raft of Hyacinth' is a 24-page graphic narrative done in pen and ink that explores the medium of comic books to tell story of interiors of the... more
In this essay, written for a module during my MA, I consider Sacco's voyeuristic position in his graphic novel Palestine, and how this position renders wounds necessarily public or private in the text.
• Opera fondativa del graphic journalism, Palestine di Joe Sacco non si offre ai lettori come tentativo di imparziale resoconto del conflitto israelo-palestinese, ma come reportage nel quale l'autore, narratore e protagonista media la... more
This article advances a three-fold argument in an equal number of sections. The first and most concise part presents a critical introduction to Alain Badiou’s philosophy of art for a scholarly field, that of comics studies, that has... more
:Esse trabalho tem como finalidade compreender os indícios das táticas e estratégias representadas pelo jornalista estadunidense Joe Sacco em sua visita aos territórios ocupados da Cirsjordânia e da Faixa de Gaza. Como fonte de pesquisa,... more
A ocupação israelense dos territórios palestinos teve início com as imigrações de judeus, a criação oficial do Estado de Israel e os ataques às aldeias palestinas, em 1948. Com esse advento, iniciou-se o processo de limpeza étnica, que... more
O objetivo desse trabalho consiste em compreender a visão de mundo do jornalista estadunidense Joe Sacco em seu trabalho “Notas sobre Gaza” após o 11 de setembro nos Estados Unidos. Em 2002, depois de trabalhar em conjunto com Chris Hedge... more
‘Getuigenis in vertaling’, zo luidde de titel van het symposium dat op 28 november 2017 plaatsvond aan het departement Vertalen, Tolken en Communicatie van de Universiteit Gent. Onderzoeksgroepen CLIV (Centrum voor Literatuur in Vertaling... more
Through this article, we focus our attention on the world views of the American journalist Joe Sacco on Palestinian women during their trip to the Occupied Territories of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. The period corresponding to her... more
Two quotes from literary critics form the basis for our examination of a range of literary depictions of human cruelty. Philosopher/literary critic Theodor Adorno wrote that “writing poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric” and critic Lawrence... more
Through a close reading of Joe Sacco's Paying the Land (2020), a graphic novel about the struggle of the Dene people in Canada's Northwestern territories, this article shows how Sacco effects a "peripheral realism" that draws the systemic... more
This draft is the syllabus for a 200 level course (3 credits) at the Collins Living Learning Center of Indiana University (IU), Bloomington, which I developed as doctoral candidate in the summer of 2001; I never taught this course. The... more
O objetivo desse trabalho consiste em analisar as representações do jornalista estadunidense Joe Sacco em seu livro-reportagem publicado no gênero História em Quadrinhos intitulado “Notas sobre Gaza”. Em “Notas sobre Gaza”, Sacco viaja... more
Joe Sacco é um autor de histórias em quadrinhos que são verdadeiras reportagens. Elas levaram a mídia a cunhar o termo ‘jornalismo em quadrinhos’. Mas Sacco forma apenas a camada mais visível das relações entre os quadrinhos e o... more
Texto sobre a obra de Joe Sacco, em particular incidindo sobre os seus livros relativos à Palestina,, e suas possíveis interacções com a prática antropológica.
Nos adentramos en las posibilidades de la novela gráfica como una plataforma discursiva de crítica social que reactualiza y tensa el otrora paradigma del arte comprometido. A partir de las ideas de Georges Didi-Huberman en Ante el... more