Stockholm/Copenhagen/Oslo: Translation and Sense of Place in Martin Kellerman’s Comic Strip Rocky
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Stockholm/Copenhagen/Oslo : Translation and Sense of Place in Martin Kellerman’s Comic Strip Rocky. / Cortsen, Rikke Platz.
In: Scandinavian Journal of Comic Art, Vol. 2, No. 1, 2015, p. 50-71.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Stockholm/Copenhagen/Oslo
T2 - Translation and Sense of Place in Martin Kellerman’s Comic Strip Rocky
AU - Cortsen, Rikke Platz
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - The Swedish comic strip Rocky has been translated to Danish and Norwegian and, in this process, its protagonist has changed nationality and hometown; Danish and Norwegian readers experience him as someone from their own cultural sphere. This article uses geographer Doreen Massey’s concept of place as progressive and structural comics theory to understand how this transition is possible. The article analyzes how different places in Rocky are constructed through the use of image and text and specifically, how the lack of place-specific visual elements and the strip’s extensive use of text is central to how it can be transformed to fit a different setting. The drawings support a general sense of place, but are rarely Stockholm-specific. However, from time to time, image and text clash, and what readers might think of as Norway or Denmark suddenly looks very Swedish.
AB - The Swedish comic strip Rocky has been translated to Danish and Norwegian and, in this process, its protagonist has changed nationality and hometown; Danish and Norwegian readers experience him as someone from their own cultural sphere. This article uses geographer Doreen Massey’s concept of place as progressive and structural comics theory to understand how this transition is possible. The article analyzes how different places in Rocky are constructed through the use of image and text and specifically, how the lack of place-specific visual elements and the strip’s extensive use of text is central to how it can be transformed to fit a different setting. The drawings support a general sense of place, but are rarely Stockholm-specific. However, from time to time, image and text clash, and what readers might think of as Norway or Denmark suddenly looks very Swedish.
KW - Faculty of Humanities
KW - tegneserier
KW - Scandinavien
KW - avisstriber
KW - sted
KW - Martin Kellerman
KW - Doreen Massey
M3 - Journal article
VL - 2
SP - 50
EP - 71
JO - Scandinavian Journal of Comic Art
JF - Scandinavian Journal of Comic Art
SN - 2001-3620
IS - 1
ER -
ID: 147572103