Can the Collective Be Heard? (Re)Drawing and Braiding as an Amplifying Gesture in Lucha , Chronique d’une revolution sans armes au Congo
(2023) HistorioGRAPHICS: Framing the Past in Comics — Location: Munich (DE) (15.June.2023)
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- This paper considers the artistic gestures of (re)drawing and braiding as an amplifying gesture in the journalistic comic Lucha, chronique d’une revolution sans armes au Congo (La Boîte à Bulles and Amnesty International) by the journalist Justine Brabant and the artist Annick Kamgang. It argues that comics-specific resources, such as (re)drawing, text-image interactions and tressage [braiding] (that is to say, visual repetition), allow to amplify not only LUCHA’s denunciations against violence and repression, but even more importantly, the values of collectivity and non-violence that lie at the heart of this Congolese movement. By doing so, the graphic narrative challenges (neo)colonial representations and renegotiates the history of Congo as a history of hope, agency and resistance, which goes back to the early days of colonization. These analyses, therefore, give insight into how the potentialities of comics can be used in a journalistic and an activist context.
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Lambert, A. (2023). Can the Collective Be Heard? (Re)Drawing and Braiding as an Amplifying Gesture in Lucha , Chronique d’une revolution sans armes au Congo. HistorioGRAPHICS: Framing the Past in Comics, Munich (DE). https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/103573