Crossing, Conflict, and Diaspora in Cyprus and Beyond in Miranda Hoplaros and Lara Alphas’s The Sign-Maker
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12180004 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Olga Michael (0000-0003-0523-9929, University of Lancashire, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 405-434 |
| Publication date | 2020-05-03 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | a/b Auto/Biography Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0898-9575 • E-ISSN: 2151-7290 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/08989575.2020.1741189 |
| OpenAlex | W3010587499 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 21 |
The Sign-Maker is a work of “graphic docufiction” that demonstrates how languages and signs reproduce conflict, colonial relations, and segregation. In addition, it foregrounds the function of spaces and monuments as “national topobiographies,” underscoring similarities between three different (post-)colonial areas. By highlighting maps and colonial uses of passports and passbooks, it also demonstrates its fictional characters’ diasporic fluidity and unrootedness
Archaeology · Colonialism · Diaspora · Function (biology · Genealogy · Geography · Sign (mathematics · Sociology · Contemporary and Historical Greek Studies · Cyprus History, Politics, Society · Gender Studies · History · Island Studies and Pacific Affairs · Mathematics
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Inventing the Eteocypriots
The Ashgate Research Companion to Border Studies
On passports and border controls
Journal of Mediterranean Studies
Different Diasporas and the Hype of Hybridity
Reading subjects
Greek Cypriot Narratives of History and Collective Identity
Partitions of Memory
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |