Self-reflexive Anthropomorphism in Cece Bell’s Autobiographical Comics: A Study of the Transgressions of Narrative Levels

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Autor(a) principal: Takakura, Sandra Mina
Data de Publicação: 2023
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Ilha do Desterro
Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/desterro/article/view/87713
Resumo: Cece Bell released her autobiographical comic El Deafo (2014) in print and digital versions, transposing herself into the anthropomorphic rabbit Cece, who speaks of her hearing loss experience at four after having contracted meningitis. Young Cece wears a hearing aid on her long rabbit ears, showing her animal, human, and technological hybrid body to others. Nevertheless, she assumes the identity of the superhero “El Deafo,” her alter-ego, to cope with her daily challenges in a community composed mostly of hearing individuals, first as an escape to her imaginary world and later for accepting her identity as deaf. This paper aims to analyse El Deafo as an autobiographical comic, considering the representation of deafness through an unstable hybrid body and a transgression of the narrative levels based on the notion of metalepsis, drawn by Genette, Kukkonen, and Ryan in various media.
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Self-reflexive Anthropomorphism in Cece Bell’s Autobiographical Comics: A Study of the Transgressions of Narrative Levels
title Self-reflexive Anthropomorphism in Cece Bell’s Autobiographical Comics: A Study of the Transgressions of Narrative Levels
spellingShingle Self-reflexive Anthropomorphism in Cece Bell’s Autobiographical Comics: A Study of the Transgressions of Narrative Levels
Takakura, Sandra Mina
autobiographical comics
anthropomorphism
El Deafo
metalepsis
digital comics
title_short Self-reflexive Anthropomorphism in Cece Bell’s Autobiographical Comics: A Study of the Transgressions of Narrative Levels
title_full Self-reflexive Anthropomorphism in Cece Bell’s Autobiographical Comics: A Study of the Transgressions of Narrative Levels
title_fullStr Self-reflexive Anthropomorphism in Cece Bell’s Autobiographical Comics: A Study of the Transgressions of Narrative Levels
title_full_unstemmed Self-reflexive Anthropomorphism in Cece Bell’s Autobiographical Comics: A Study of the Transgressions of Narrative Levels
title_sort Self-reflexive Anthropomorphism in Cece Bell’s Autobiographical Comics: A Study of the Transgressions of Narrative Levels
author Takakura, Sandra Mina
author_facet Takakura, Sandra Mina
author_role author
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Takakura, Sandra Mina
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv autobiographical comics
anthropomorphism
El Deafo
metalepsis
digital comics
topic autobiographical comics
anthropomorphism
El Deafo
metalepsis
digital comics
description Cece Bell released her autobiographical comic El Deafo (2014) in print and digital versions, transposing herself into the anthropomorphic rabbit Cece, who speaks of her hearing loss experience at four after having contracted meningitis. Young Cece wears a hearing aid on her long rabbit ears, showing her animal, human, and technological hybrid body to others. Nevertheless, she assumes the identity of the superhero “El Deafo,” her alter-ego, to cope with her daily challenges in a community composed mostly of hearing individuals, first as an escape to her imaginary world and later for accepting her identity as deaf. This paper aims to analyse El Deafo as an autobiographical comic, considering the representation of deafness through an unstable hybrid body and a transgression of the narrative levels based on the notion of metalepsis, drawn by Genette, Kukkonen, and Ryan in various media.
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