Comics, Revolutionary Struggles, and Activist Lives

Clara Vlessing

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-61493-5_251-1

Comics, Revolutionary Struggles, and Activist Lives

Clara Vlessing

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Comics contribute to the cultural remembrance of revolutionary struggles by remediating activist lives in verbal–visual forms. As these works playfully conflate past, present, and future, they call upon their readers to co-create the meaning of the lives of revolutionary icons, making links between the actions of radicals in the past and those of readers in the present. They stage an intersubjective encounter, predicated on a performed alignment between activist writer, reader, and protagonist, in which the two former parties jointly remember the third. Three examples of strategies through which this encounter occurs are (1) through the comics’ paratexts, (2) through their use of intertextual verbal–visual references, and (3) through direct addresses to the reader.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Cultural Heritage and Conflict
Editors	Ihab Saloul, Britt Britt Baillie
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages	7
ISBN (Print)	978-3-030-61493-5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-61493-5_251-1
Publication status	Published - 4 Jan 2025

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