Reading childly : Riki Fermier and Cascao
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- Maaheen Ahmed (UGent)
- Organization
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- COMICS (Children in Comics: An intercultural history from 1865 to today)
- Abstract
- This chapter focuses on Manouach’s incitations to re-read and think with comics and about comics-making through the lens of childness or a critical construction of the implied child reader. It argues that Manouach’s comics Riki Fermier and Cascao function on three superposed levels: (a) they activate the possibility of rethinking the notion of childness and childishness through comics, a medium often occupying the uncomfortable status of presumably being for children (and other ‘others’ incapable of appreciating grown-up culture) while being prohibited for children; (b) they offer childish re-readings of the comics through their free reworking of the material, playing the game of pretend or what if (Riki Fermier) or spilling bleach on the pages (Cascao); (c) they ultimately encourage a de-constrained reading, nudging readers to listen to voices often silenced or ignored (such as Riki, as a secondary character) or listen to the silence itself by glossing over the dominant voices (Cascao). Reading childly, as a result, is exemplified as both method and critical practice.
- Keywords
- comics, conceptual comics, childness, silences, childishness
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- Ahmed, Maaheen. “Reading Childly : Riki Fermier and Cascao.” Ilan Manouach in Review : Critical Approaches to His Conceptual Comics, edited by Pedro Moura, Routledge, 2023, pp. 97–111, doi:10.4324/9781003374961-9.
- APA
- Ahmed, M. (2023). Reading childly : Riki Fermier and Cascao. In P. Moura (Ed.), Ilan Manouach in review : critical approaches to his conceptual comics (pp. 97–111). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003374961-9
- Chicago author-date
- Ahmed, Maaheen. 2023. “Reading Childly : Riki Fermier and Cascao.” In Ilan Manouach in Review : Critical Approaches to His Conceptual Comics, edited by Pedro Moura, 97–111. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003374961-9.
- Chicago author-date (all authors)
- Ahmed, Maaheen. 2023. “Reading Childly : Riki Fermier and Cascao.” In Ilan Manouach in Review : Critical Approaches to His Conceptual Comics, ed by. Pedro Moura, 97–111. Routledge. doi:10.4324/9781003374961-9.
- Vancouver
- 1.Ahmed M. Reading childly : Riki Fermier and Cascao. In: Moura P, editor. Ilan Manouach in review : critical approaches to his conceptual comics. Routledge; 2023. p. 97–111.
- IEEE
- [1]M. Ahmed, “Reading childly : Riki Fermier and Cascao,” in Ilan Manouach in review : critical approaches to his conceptual comics, P. Moura, Ed. Routledge, 2023, pp. 97–111.
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