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

Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14210%2F24%3A00139348" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14210/24:00139348 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.comicsgrid.com/article/id/11034/" target="_blank" >https://www.comicsgrid.com/article/id/11034/</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.16995/cg.11034" target="_blank" >10.16995/cg.11034</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Identity Construction in Graphic Life Narratives by Aline Kominsky Crumb and Katie Green
Original language description
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.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60205 - Literary theory

Project
<a href="/en/project/GA21-12454S" target="_blank" >GA21-12454S: Fact and Fiction in Life Stories: Life Writing and Its Narrative Strategies</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year
2024
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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