Didier’s Archive: Autobiography, Humanitarianism, and Image in Le Photographe
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https://doi.org/10.17851/2317-2096.25.3.181-204Keywords:
graphic novel, intermediality, humanitarian narrative, autobiography, war photographyAbstract
Production of an humanitarian and pacifist discourse is discussed on an interpretation of the autobiographical graphic novel Le Photographe (Guibert, Lefèvre, Lemercier). In the analysis of narrative, media combination and montage proceedings are highlighted, as well as the dinamics of collective authorship in the creative process. The character-narrator accompanies a medical-aid mission of Médicins Sans Frontières in Afghanistan and experiences the war through his own photography. Didier’s photo-archive and oral memories are sources of threads that weave the narrative fabric – a mixing of autobiography, photojournalism, literature, and comics. In this merger, the narrative exposes materiality of war destruction and a testimony of the character’s own desestabilization.
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