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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.
List of contents
List of figures, List of contributors, Series editor’s introduction, Acknowledgements, 1. Introduction: The entanglements of comics and migration, PART I: Migration and the use of comics, 2. The long road to Almanya: Comics in language education for “guest workers” in West Germany, 1970s–1980s, 3. Feminist comics activism: Stories about migrant women in Sweden by Amalia Alvarez and Daria Bogdanska, 4. Contracts via comics: Migrant workers and Thai fishing vessel employment contracts, 5. From representations of suffering migrants to appreciation of the Mexican American legacy in the United States: The NGO-produced comics Historias migrantes, 6. Collaborative work, migrant representativity, and racism, PART II: Configurations of nationalism and migration, 7. V for pissed-offedness: anti-immigrant subversion of dystopian superhero intertexts, 8. On the “good” side: hegemonic masculinity and transnational intervention in the representation of US–Mexico border enforcement, 9. The politics of inversion in Americatown: limits in public pedagogy, 10. Racist and national(ist) symbols in a Finnish antiracist comics zine, PART III: Conventions and revisions of migration narratives, 11. Absented from his master’s service: Benjamin Franklin House, slavery, and comics, 12. Tears of a refugee: melodramatic life writing and Reinhard Kleist’s Der Traum von Olympia, 13. To see and to show: photography, drawing, and refugee representation in comics journalism on refugee camps, 14. Humans on the move: some thoughts about approaching migration as a journalist in comics, 15. Intolerable fictions: composing refugee realities in comics, Index
About the author
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.
Summary
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.
