National images in visual narratives : the (re)presentation of national characters in the Flemish comic series "Suske en Wiske"
- 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.
| Author: | Christine HermannGND |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-710651 |
| URL: | https://brill.com/downloadpdf/book/9789004513150/BP000028.pdf |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004513150_019 |
| ISBN: | 978-90-04-51315-0 |
| ISBN: | 978-90-04-45012-7 |
| ISSN: | 0927-4065 |
| Parent Title (English): | New perspectives on imagology / edited by Katharina Edtstadler, Sandra Folie and Gianna Zocco ; Studia Imagologica ; 30 |
| Publisher: | Brill |
| Place of publication: | Leiden ; Boston |
| Document Type: | Part of a Book |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2024/04/08 |
| Year of first Publication: | 2022 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2024/04/08 |
| Tag: | Auto-image; Comic studies; Flemish comics; Hetero-image; National stereotypes Suske en Wiske |
| GND Keyword: | Comic; Belgien; Flämisch; Stereotyp; Fremdbild; Selbstbild; Ostblock; Chinabild; Japanbild |
| Page Number: | 27 |
| First Page: | 349 |
| Last Page: | 369 |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 8 Literatur / 80 Literatur, Rhetorik, Literaturwissenschaft / 800 Literatur und Rhetorik |
| 7 Künste und Unterhaltung / 74 Zeichnung, angewandte Kunst / 741.5 Comics, Cartoons, Karikaturen | |
| Sammlungen: | CompaRe | Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft |
| CompaRe | Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft / Leibniz-Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung, Berlin | |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - CC BY-NC - Namensnennung - Nicht kommerziell 4.0 International |
