Graphic Visions : Translating Chinese History Through Collaborative Graphic Autobiography
Research output: Chapters, Conference Papers, Creative and Literary Works › RGC 12 - Chapter in an edited book (Author) › peer-review
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| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Literature, Memory, Hegemony |
| Subtitle of host publication | East/West Crossings |
| Editors | Sharmani Patricia Gabriel , Nicholas O. Pagan |
| Place of Publication | Singapore |
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Chapter | 8 |
| Pages | 141-158 |
| ISBN (electronic) | 9789811090011 |
| ISBN (print) | 9789811090004 |
| Publication status | Published - 2018 |
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Abstract
This essay approaches the East/West trope in terms of how twentieth-century Chinese history is translated and negotiated between nations, cultures, and through a verbal/visual narrative form. The primary focus is the graphic autobiography A Chinese Life (originally published as Une Vie Chinoise), a work which documents the life of a Communist Party cartoonist and propagandist. This study explores the ways in which this collaborative work addresses issues of history and memory on both personal and collective levels, and examines both the potentialities and underlying problems of East/West collaboration, particularly as histories are negotiated across national and political borders.
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- Graphic autobiography, Propaganda and memory, East/West, Collaborative autobiography
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Graphic Visions: Translating Chinese History Through Collaborative Graphic Autobiography. / Mather, Jeffrey.
Literature, Memory, Hegemony : East/West Crossings. ed. / Sharmani Patricia Gabriel ; Nicholas O. Pagan. Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. p. 141-158.
Literature, Memory, Hegemony : East/West Crossings. ed. / Sharmani Patricia Gabriel ; Nicholas O. Pagan. Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. p. 141-158.
Research output: Chapters, Conference Papers, Creative and Literary Works › RGC 12 - Chapter in an edited book (Author) › peer-review
