Comics as Literary Compasses and Kaleidoscopes
Through an analysis of published graphic novels and comics created by schoolchildren, and building upon Rudine Sims Bishop’s literary metaphors, we discuss how comics serve as compasses and kaleidoscopes that allow readers/composers/educators to center justice in the storying process. We argue that...
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Through an analysis of published graphic novels and comics created by schoolchildren, and building upon Rudine Sims Bishop’s literary metaphors, we discuss how comics serve as compasses and kaleidoscopes that allow readers/composers/educators to center justice in the storying process. We argue that the comics medium provides readers and authors specific affordances (interiority, multiperspectivity, fragmentation, ambiguity, juxtaposition, and focalization) for bending reality and framing stories of the unseen, unheard, and hidden in the margins. We address teachers directly in exploring what’s possible when texts are read kaleidoscopically to engage the multiperspectival/multiversal/liminal nature of a robustly multimodal medium.
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| spelling | doaj-art-4684985d527c4ca2857f28ea85cf625f2025-08-25T20:53:03ZengUniversity of Oklahoma LibrariesStudy and Scrutiny2376-52752025-05-017110.15763/issn.2376-5275.2025.7.1.254-290Comics as Literary Compasses and KaleidoscopesDavid E. Low 0Francisco L. Torres1California State University, FresnoKent State University Through an analysis of published graphic novels and comics created by schoolchildren, and building upon Rudine Sims Bishop’s literary metaphors, we discuss how comics serve as compasses and kaleidoscopes that allow readers/composers/educators to center justice in the storying process. We argue that the comics medium provides readers and authors specific affordances (interiority, multiperspectivity, fragmentation, ambiguity, juxtaposition, and focalization) for bending reality and framing stories of the unseen, unheard, and hidden in the margins. We address teachers directly in exploring what’s possible when texts are read kaleidoscopically to engage the multiperspectival/multiversal/liminal nature of a robustly multimodal medium. https://journals.shareok.org/studyandscrutiny/ojs/studyandscrutiny/article/view/1187teaching graphic novelscomics analysisrepresentationmultimodal textscritical visual literacysocial justice |
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