Postcolonial Issues and Colonial Closures: Portrayals of Ambivalence in Shaun Tan’s The Arrival
This article aims to investigate the visual representation of the connection between immigration and the construction of an Australian identity as a nation in Shaun Tan’s graphic novel The Arrival (2006). Based on the debate about imagined communities and the ambivalence on the narration of a natio...
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| Main Authors: | Renata Lucena Dalmaso, Thayse Madella |
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
2016-06-01
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| Series: | Ilha do Desterro |
| Online Access: | https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/desterro/article/view/43322 |
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