TY  - CHAP
A1  - Hermann, Christine
T1  - National images in visual narratives : the (re)presentation of national characters in the Flemish comic series "Suske en Wiske"
T2  - New perspectives on imagology / edited by Katharina Edtstadler, Sandra Folie and Gianna Zocco ; Studia Imagologica ; 30
N2  - In visual narratives such as comics, national images are actually depicted. While Franco-Belgian comics have been the subject of detailed studies regarding the national stereotypes they convey, Flemish comics have been largely ignored. This article focuses on three albums of the Flemish comic series "Suske en Wiske", in which the heroes travel to a fictitious Eastern Bloc country, Japan, and China. It will examine how both heteroimages and auto-image are presented (visually, textually, and as part of the plot), and how comic characters may combine contradictory ethnotypes. As it will turn out, in the early album (1945) ethnotypes are perpetuated, whereas in later ones (1984, 2008) they are rather undermined.
KW  - Comic
KW  - Belgien
KW  - Flämisch
KW  - Stereotyp
KW  - Fremdbild
KW  - Selbstbild
KW  - Suske en Wiske
KW  - Comic studies
KW  - Flemish comics
KW  - National stereotypes
KW  - Auto-image
KW  - Hetero-image
KW  - Ostblock
KW  - Chinabild
KW  - Japanbild
Y1  - 2022
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/71065
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-710651
UR  - https://brill.com/downloadpdf/book/9789004513150/BP000028.pdf
SN  - 978-90-04-51315-0
SN  - 978-90-04-45012-7
SN  - 0927-4065
SP  - 349
EP  - 369
PB  - Brill
CY  - Leiden ; Boston
ER  -