Framing the Penal Colony - Representing, Interpreting and Imagining Convict Transportation
Framing the Penal Colony - Representing, Interpreting and Imagining Convict Transportation
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构建流放地——代表、解释和想象囚犯的运输
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10.1007/978-3-031-19396-5_4
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2023
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Cointot C
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Cointot C
This chapter offers a close reading of two recent comics, the 2-volume (2016–2017)Forçatsby Fabien Bedouel, Pat Perna and Florence Fantini andL’Homme qui s’évada(2006) by Laurent Maffre which retell journalist Albert Londres’ account of Eugène Dieudonné’s escape from the penal colony and subsequent campaign for pardon. The intention is to analyse contemporary re-imaginings and the visual lexicon upon which they draw. How do these recent comics fit into a longer visual tradition? To what extent do they also offer an alternative set of images and ‘re-framings’ which deliberately evoke earlier representations produced ‘within’ the penal colony? In what ways can these retellings challenge existing cultural representations of convict transportation and forced labour, opening up new readings and a more nuanced understanding of French Guiana’s carceral geographies?