- Author
- Year
- 2017
- Title
- From metaphor to allegory
- Subtitle
- The Japanese manga Afuganisu-tan
- Journal
- Metaphor and the Social World
- Volume | Issue number
- 7 | 2
- Pages (from-to)
- 235-251
- Document type
- Article
- Faculty
- Faculty of Humanities (FGw)
- Institute
- Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication (ACLC)
- Abstract
-
Afuganisu-tan is an online manga by Timaking, published in English online in 2005, that presents selected historical events of modern Afghanistan in a series of 29 episodes plus an appendix. An episode consists of a four-panel micro-narrative in which Afghanistan and the countries with which its history is intertwined are consistently personified as young girls. Each manga episode is accompanied by a short, textual “memo” describing historical events in a neutral, factual way. In this paper, we (1) propose that the extended personification of Afghanistan and other countries in this manga can be understood in terms of “allegory”; (2) sketch and evaluate how the manga part affects the construal of the country’s history; (3) consider some of the consequences of combining the manga part with memo text for the informative and educational value of Afuganisu-tan.
- URL
- go to publisher's site
- Language
- English
- Persistent Identifier
- https://hdl.handle.net/11245.1/9872caa0-a243-4abf-a58d-d0a30ee90f38
- Downloads
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CornevinForceville2017distributedversion(Submitted manuscript)
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