https://biblio.ugent.be/ Ghent University Academic Bibliography 2000-01-01T00:00+00:00 1 monthly https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/01KVZFHGCYVT2S0EE133PS2E40 Braibant, Lou 2024 As colour theory is rarely forwarded as a central focus in comics studies in general (Baetens), and because colours are often reduced to bleak schemes in the trauma graphic novel (RomeroJódar 21), I want to address the need to study colour usage in those texts. In the trauma graphic novel "Heimat", Nora Krug tries to reconstruct her (German) identity by reconstructing her family history during WW II. Unlike the more typical bleak-coloured texts in its genre, Krug uses vibrant colour palettes in a scrapbook-like play with different (archival) materials. Since colour is strongly attached to both (embodied) cognitive interactions with colour (Bonaiuto et al.; Naz & Epps; Robinson), and to materials and cultural objects (Macdonald and Mylonas; Jacobson-Cielecka), I propose a complex colour analysis as a fertile way to spark dialogue between history studies and comics studies. The main goal of this research paper shall be to identify the usage of colour and its effects in WW II research as represented in Nora Krug’s "Heimat". At the same time, the paper will aim to emphasize the relation between the cognitive, historical, and narratological implications of specific colour usages. First, a comprehensive analysis of colour usage and colour palettes concerning Heimat’s structure will be conducted to identify Heimat’s “colour profile” – the colour palettes favoured by Nora Krug throughout her narrative, both aesthetically and narratologically. Second, three cases in which colour usage deviates from the structuralist function of colour in Heimat will serve as points of intersection between the cognitive, narratological, and historical implications of colour usage. The identified colours are extrapolated from Caspar David Friedrich’s "The Wanderer above the Sea of Fog", archival objects, and cultural-historical “objects”, which are all items prominently featured throughout the graphic novel. These will be linked back to and brought into dialogue with Heimat’s “colour profile”. application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.presentation https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/01KVZFHGCYVT2S0EE133PS2E40 http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-01KVZFHGCYVT2S0EE133PS2E40 http://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.21885.68323 https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/01KVZFHGCYVT2S0EE133PS2E40/file/01KVZFPXMRWZP0RHK9FTYACY3M https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/01KVZFHGCYVT2S0EE133PS2E40/file/01KVZFPXMRWZP0RHK9FTYACY3M eng info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess History in comics : handling comics, exploring methodologies and approaches to comic studies in history and the social sciences, Abstracts Languages and Literatures colour theory Nora Krug Comics Graphic Novel Heimat A vibrantly bleak history : a colour-based perspective on Nora Krug’s graphic novel 'Heimat' conference info:eu-repo/semantics/conferenceObject info:eu-repo/semantics/draft