This group of researchers is interested in the combinations and dialogues between various media (literature, comics, images, paintings, photographic archives) and the attempt to describe their adaptations, transmissions, reinterpretations beyond mere questions of fidelity. Comics, a medium located at the crossroads of painting, text, photography, and image, is in a state of constant hybridization and evolution, and gives rise to polyphony and polysemy. Our analysis of comics focuses on the ways in which this medium reshapes itself. While the projects included here seek to identify and connect modes of transmission, they also fundamentally question these intermedialities. The comic book/graphic novel is considered in its links with a decolonial praxis, its capacities of demonstration and interpretation of the implicit, its dialogues, its uses and reinterpretations of canonical novels and colonial photographic archives.
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In addition to the study of comics, this group of scholars considers intermediality as a theoretical framework to study the exchanges at work between the literary medium and other media. It is interesting not only to observe where the text interacts with other artistic registers (music, photography, performance, etc.), but also to note the special relationship that can develop between literature and conventionally "non-artistic" and non-fictional productions such as journalism, television documentaries, and video games, etc. This research program accordingly allows us to examine the social impact of intermedial literary publications, as well as the diversity of their political engagements.
Members: V茅ronique Bragard, Alicia Lambert, Camille Dasseleer
Recent publications :
Bragard, V茅ronique "D茅voiler les t茅n猫bres de Conrad : 脿 propos de l鈥櫯搖vre spectrale de Michael Matthys" COLLATERAL 鈥� Online Journal for Cross-Cultural Close Reading 26, (Dec. 2020).
Bragard, V茅ronique ; Thewissen, Catherine. "Expressionism, deformity, and abject texture in bande dessin茅e appropriations of Frankenstein". In Adapting Frankenstein: The monster's eternal lives in popular culture, Edited by Dennis R. Cutchins and Dennis R. Perry, 2018.
Bragard, V茅ronique. "Entre ambivalence et 茅thique : Les t茅n猫bres conradiennes en bande dessin茅e". In Outre-mers: revue d'histoire, Vol. 104, no.392-393, p. 143-159 (2016).
Bragard, V茅ronique. "Belgo-Congolese Transnational Comics Esthetics: Transcolonial Labor from Mongo Sisse'sBingo en Belgique to Cassiau-Haurie and Baruti's Madame Livingstone: Congo, la Grande Guerre (2014)". In: Literature Compass, Vol. 13, no.5, p. 332-340 (2016).
Dasseleer, Camille. "La hibridez como heteronom铆a de la poes铆a contempor谩nea. El caso de la obra de Cecilia Vicu帽a." Actio Nova: Revista de Teor铆a de la Literatura y Literatura Comparada, n. 4, 2020, (sous presses).
Theses in progress :
Alicia Lambert (Boursi猫re FSR-UCLouvain),听D茅coloniser les st茅r茅otypes : possibilit茅s et limites de la bande dessin茅e contemporaine.
Camille Dasseleer (Assistante), Interm茅dialit茅s politiques 鈥� Po茅sie multim茅dia et engagement social chez trois po茅tesses de langue espagnole
Defended theses:
Benoit Crucifix, Drawing from the Archives: Comics Memory in the Graphic Novel, post 2000. (ULi猫ge, UCLouvain, 2020)
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Illustration : Michael Matthys, exposition avril 2018 脿 la galerie Cerami. Fragment de roman graphique inspir茅 d鈥檃rchives coloniales et familiales et du texte de Conrad Au Coeur des t茅n猫bres