Body/Images - Foreign/Gazes: (Feminine) Territoriality and CorpoGraphy in Latin American Graphic Narratives

身体/图像 - 外国/凝视：拉丁美洲图形叙事中的（女性）领土性和体形学

• 批准号: EP/X021378/1
• 负责人: James Edward Scorer
• 金额: $ 24.26万
• 依托单位: University of Manchester
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Fellowship
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FX021378%2F1
• 关键词: Body; Images; Foreign; Gazes; Feminine

In the last two decades, graphic narratives have become a prominent artistic space of feminist resistance in Latin America. Although the comics scene is still dominated by male artists and readers, women are increasingly using the medium to question hegemonic and heteronormative social structures and repressive visualities. This examination of (neo)colonial relations, patriarchy, and reproductive rights in Latin America is taking place in a region whose history and geographic toponomy is marked by the allegorical 'feminization' of lands and territories. Many of these processes are carried out through repressive visualities, not least in comics, a medium where women's bodies have historically been subjected to the (White) male gaze. Nevertheless, the graphic language of comics, with its multimodal nature, allows for a critical but also ironic and playful subversion of hegemonic visual and textual traditions. These reasons indicate why comics have become a highly effective artistic tool for diverse political movements such as the Argentinean 'green wave' protests. This project has a three-fold dimension: (A) It explores the publishing and gatekeeping strategies as well as platforms Latin American women use to circulate their graphic art, paying special attention to the role of social media and to the formation of transnational collectives. (B) Through an extensive archival research, it examines the transmedial dialogues established with hegemonic/colonial art traditions, repressive visualities, and Indigenous and African iconographies, focussing especially on the representation and resignification of the female body. Finally, (C) the project asks how these comics contribute to feminist protest culture and political resistance in the Global South, pointing to the leading role that Latin America has in fourth-wave feminism and showing how the graphic forms of protest have become a role model internationally.

在过去的二十年里，图形叙事已经成为拉丁美洲女权主义抵抗的一个突出的艺术空间。虽然漫画界仍然由男性艺术家和读者主导，但妇女越来越多地利用这一媒介来质疑霸权和异性恋规范的社会结构和压抑性的视觉效果。这（新）殖民关系，父权制和生殖权利在拉丁美洲的检查是发生在一个地区的历史和地理拓扑的标志是寓言的“女性化”的土地和领土。其中许多过程都是通过压抑性的视觉效果进行的，尤其是在漫画中，在漫画中，妇女的身体历来受到（白色）男性的注视。尽管如此，漫画的图形语言，以其多模态的性质，允许一个关键的，但也具有讽刺意味的和好玩的颠覆霸权的视觉和文本传统。这些原因表明了为什么漫画已经成为一个非常有效的艺术工具，为各种政治运动，如阿根廷的“绿色浪潮”抗议。该项目有三个方面：（A）它探讨拉丁美洲妇女用来传播其平面艺术的出版和把关战略以及平台，特别关注社会媒体的作用和跨国集体的形成。(B)通过广泛的档案研究，它研究了与霸权/殖民艺术传统，压抑的视觉效果以及土著和非洲图像学建立的跨媒体对话，特别关注女性身体的表现和重新意义。最后，（C）该项目询问这些漫画如何为全球南方的女权主义抗议文化和政治抵抗做出贡献，指出拉丁美洲在第四波女权主义中的领导作用，并展示抗议的图形形式如何成为国际榜样。