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Praca fizyczna z różowymi akcentami. Polskie doświadczenie migracyjne w powieści graficznej Rozmówki polsko-angielskie Agaty Wawryniuk
Manual Labour with a Pink Touch: The Polish Migrant Experience as Depicted in Agata Wawryniuk’s Graphic Novel Rozmówki polsko-angielskie [Polish-English Phrasebook]
Author(s): Kris Van HeuckelomSubject(s): Social Sciences, Language and Literature Studies, Gender Studies, Literary Texts, Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Visual Arts, Studies of Literature, Sociology, Polish Literature, Migration Studies
Published by: Instytut Badań Literackich Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: graphic novel; labour migration; self-reflexivity; femininity
Summary/Abstract: Drawing on the most recent literature in the field of comics studies, this article offers an in-depth analysis of Agata Wawryniuk’s graphic novel Rozmówki polsko-angielskie [Polish-English Phrasebook] (2012). Van Heuckelom focuses on the interplay between the author’s thematic engagement with contemporary labour migration on the one hand and the book’s generic hybridity and stylistic expressivity on the other. Wawryniuk’s carefully penciled artwork reveals certain self-reflexive and performative traits: as a hand-drawn artefact bearing the fingerprint of its female maker, the novel embodies a kind of manual labour that fundamentally differs from the mind-numbing, repetitive, and risky forms of work carried out by the labour migrants depicted in the world of the story itself.
Journal: Teksty Drugie
- Issue Year: 2016
- Issue No: 3
- Page Range: 81-97
- Page Count: 17
- Language: Polish
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