Representing and Performing Pilgrimage in a Comic Book: On the Camino

Over the last few decades, comic books and graphic novels have become valid literary sources within the humanities and social sciences. This paper addresses a new creative and performative artistic expression of the European pilgrimage route the Camino de Santiago in Spain through examining the auto...

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Subtitles:"Art, Images, Symbols and Pilgrimage"
Main Author: Lopez, Lucrezia (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Dublin Institute of Technology [2020]
In: The international journal of religious tourism and pilgrimage
Year: 2020, Volume: 8, Issue: 5, Pages: 25-42
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Jason 1965-, On the Camino / Camino de Santiago / Pilgrimage / Experience
RelBib Classification:AD Sociology of religion; religious policy
AG Religious life; material religion
CB Christian life; spirituality
CD Christianity and Culture
Further subjects:B Camino de Santiago
B Pilgrimage
B creative narratives
B Graphic novel
Online Access: Volltext (Verlag)
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Summary:Over the last few decades, comic books and graphic novels have become valid literary sources within the humanities and social sciences. This paper addresses a new creative and performative artistic expression of the European pilgrimage route the Camino de Santiago in Spain through examining the autobiographical graphic novel On the Camino, written by the Norwegian cartoonist Jason (2017), which introduces a new way of sharing pilgrimage experiences through combining pictorial and literary devices. Here, the focus is on the dynamic paradigm that arises beyond the ‘fixed sequential images’ in the graphic novel and the role of readers in the spatial meaning-making-process. This creative mode of production regarding pilgrimage along the Camino, suggests that comic books and graphic novels can be a valid source of understanding and portraying pilgrimage experiences.
ISSN:2009-7379
Contains:Enthalten in: The international journal of religious tourism and pilgrimage