Visualizing erasure

Co‐creating comics and animation from revolutionary street art to Nubian memories of displacement in Egypt

Bibliographic Data

ID7200243
AuthorsSherine Hamdy (0000-0002-0387-2336, University of California, Irvine Irvine California USA, corresponding author), Yasmin Moll (0000-0001-5179-8540, University of Michigan Ann Arbor Michigan USA)
Year2024
Volume40
Issue2
Pages264-280
Publication date2024-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueVisual Anthropology Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1058-7187 • E-ISSN: 1548-7458
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/var.12343
OpenAlexW4404059641
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited29

This article discusses how Faye Ginsburg's work on Indigenous filmmaking and commitment to shared anthropology inspired us to pursue unconventional forms of visual anthropology adapted to our own ethnographic contexts in post‐revolutionary Egypt. Specifically, we discuss Hamdy's work on the collaborative graphic novel Lissa and Moll's collaborative animation short Hanina. The affordances of these illustrated genres and mediums for collaborative co‐creation with our interlocutors enabled better ways to depict that which is no longer tangibly present yet persists in memories and longings. The specific histories of each media resonated with how the communities sought to represent themselves, a powerful example of what Ginsburg calls “aesthetic accountability.” We also reflect on how comics and animation, through greater anonymity, can help us attain safety as a production value under authoritarianism

Animation · Art · Art history · Comics · Computer graphics (images · Displacement (psychology · Erasure · Literature · Programming language · Psychoanalysis · Visual arts · Comics and Graphic Narratives · Computer Science · Digital Storytelling and Education · Psychology

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