Imagining futures through graphic storytelling : a Qazaq dystopia in Orda and an Indigenous utopia in kitaskinaw 2350 ...
Imagining and visualizing futures through graphic storytelling, Indigenous comics writers and illustrators create alternative possibilities that inherently reject colonial narratives that do not envision Indigenous cultures surviving into the future. Deliberately centering Indigenous Peoples in the...
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ftdatacite:10.14288/1.0438322 2024-04-28T08:41:17+00:00 Imagining futures through graphic storytelling : a Qazaq dystopia in Orda and an Indigenous utopia in kitaskinaw 2350 ... Kanasheva, Malika 2023 https://dx.doi.org/10.14288/1.0438322 https://doi.library.ubc.ca/10.14288/1.0438322 en eng University of British Columbia article-journal Text ScholarlyArticle 2023 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.14288/1.0438322 2024-04-02T09:32:45Z Imagining and visualizing futures through graphic storytelling, Indigenous comics writers and illustrators create alternative possibilities that inherently reject colonial narratives that do not envision Indigenous cultures surviving into the future. Deliberately centering Indigenous Peoples in the story in various ways, they represent utopian and dystopian scenarios that serve as not the destruction of Indigenous worlds but instead catalysts of decolonization. This thesis analyzes the futures imagined in a Qazaq comic series, Orda, written by Orazkhan Jakup and featuring different illustrators for each issue, and an Indigenous comic from Canada, kitaskinaw 2350, written by a Métis writer Chelsea Vowel, illustrated by a Wolastoqiyik artist Tara Audibert, and coloured by Donovan Yaciuk. Engaging the dynamic critical conversations about Indigenous Futurism and comics as a form, I draw on Chadwick Allen’s trans-Indigenous reading methodology and his arguments about “legitimiz[ing] our expanding archive for ... Text Wolastoqiyik DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) |
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Imagining and visualizing futures through graphic storytelling, Indigenous comics writers and illustrators create alternative possibilities that inherently reject colonial narratives that do not envision Indigenous cultures surviving into the future. Deliberately centering Indigenous Peoples in the story in various ways, they represent utopian and dystopian scenarios that serve as not the destruction of Indigenous worlds but instead catalysts of decolonization. This thesis analyzes the futures imagined in a Qazaq comic series, Orda, written by Orazkhan Jakup and featuring different illustrators for each issue, and an Indigenous comic from Canada, kitaskinaw 2350, written by a Métis writer Chelsea Vowel, illustrated by a Wolastoqiyik artist Tara Audibert, and coloured by Donovan Yaciuk. Engaging the dynamic critical conversations about Indigenous Futurism and comics as a form, I draw on Chadwick Allen’s trans-Indigenous reading methodology and his arguments about “legitimiz[ing] our expanding archive for ... |
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Imagining futures through graphic storytelling : a Qazaq dystopia in Orda and an Indigenous utopia in kitaskinaw 2350 ... |
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