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Download fileStephan Packard - Transnational Imagination and the Ideology of Fiction: Picturing Cultural Others in Intercultural Comic Publications
conference contribution
posted on 2020-06-29, 09:15 authored by Stephan Packard02/07/2020 15:00 Room 1 #traprn
Mainstream comics strive towards images of transnationality in various
ways: by addressing international markets and audiences, by including
transnationally diverse creators, and by depicting transnational settings and
dramatis personae on their pages. As the latter are typically fictional, this
practice usually includes the necessary invention
of the transnational other – a freedom of imagination that might, however,
similarly apply to the projected images of producers and audiences. As
contradictions between different conceptions and material practices of
transnationality arise, an ideological element of fiction may be traced that is
situated beyond the naïve questions of confusing the fictional and the real,
and that instead operates by confounding the social imaginary with
possibilities of political agency. The talk will trace some examples of these
contradictions through their aesthetic and stylistic consequences on the page
and back to a reflection of the imagined transnational comic book marketplace.