Drawing-Writing Culture: The Truth-Fiction Spectrum of an Ethno-Graphic Novel on the Sri Lankan Civil War and Migration
Drawing-Writing Culture: The Truth-Fiction Spectrum of an Ethno-Graphic Novel on the Sri Lankan Civil War and Migration
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绘画-写作文化:一部关于斯里兰卡内战和移民的民族图画小说的真实与虚构光谱
DOI:
10.1111/var.12172
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发表时间:
2019
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0.8
通讯作者:
R. Kaur
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作者:
B. Dix;R. Kaur
With the focus on an ‘ethno-graphic novel’ on the Sri Lankan civil war and the forcible displacement and migration of Tamil survivors, we consider two main propositions as a reflection on, and development of the ‘graphic narrative turn’ that has emerged in anthropology in recent years. First, we inscribe drawing into the ‘writing of cultures’ where words have held a superior status in ethnographic representations. Rather than seeing drawings as secondary to, or merely as perceptive tools for recording experiences during fieldwork, we extend them so as they become part of a representational practice in which they can have a deep, intricate and equivalent entanglement with words to create synchronous affective intensities with research participants and viewers. Our second proposal follows Jean Rouch on cinema verite to interrogate assumptions about truth and fiction as portrayed by film representations. We propose a theory and practice for graphic novel production that we have termed, verites graphiques (literally, graphic realities). This describes the collaborative and interactive engagement with people’s contributions and views, and their distillation and fictionalisation through the ethno-graphic form. We diverge from cinema verite, however, by highlighting a truth-fiction spectrum that further interrogates the presumed objectivity of what is seen, experienced, co-created and revealed.
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2018
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作者:
Kaur
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Kaur