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Autographics as autoethnography: comic book adventures of a migrant academic
Continuum ( IF 2.139 ) Pub Date : 2023-02-28 , DOI: 10.1080/10304312.2023.2182957
Can T. Yalçınkaya

ABSTRACT

In this paper, I utilize autographics as an autoethnographic methodology to illustrate the subjective experience of being a precariously employed migrant academic in Australia. The autographic narrative, as well as the traditional text, are in dialogue with Sara Ahmed’s work on migration and estrangement, in order to explore migration both as a physical movement between countries, but also as a metaphorical movement between different forms of writing – scholarly texts and comics – and the communities associated with them – Academia and the Zine scene. Ahmed explores critical theory’s celebration of migration as a metaphor for transgression, a symbolic act of abandoning the familiar, the traditional and safe patterns of thinking to embark on adventures across borders and boundaries. My own presumptions regarding a literal migration in physical space were conflated with this metaphorical meaning, as I saw it as a liberatory move to reflect on – and re-invent – myself, breaking away from a national identity which I found stifling. My actual experience of migration turned out to be one of dislocation and isolation. In order to escape feelings of anxiety, I sought refuge in another metaphor: academia, and later the zine scene as an alternative ‘homeland.’



中文翻译:

作为自动民族志的亲笔签名:一个移民学者的漫画书冒险

摘要

在这篇论文中,我利用亲笔签名作为一种民族志方法来说明作为一名在澳大利亚不稳定就业的移民学者的主观经历。自传叙事以及传统文本与萨拉·艾哈迈德 (Sara Ahmed) 关于移民和疏远的作品进行对话,以探索移民既是国家之间的物理运动,也是不同写作形式之间的隐喻运动——学术文本和漫画——以及与之相关的社区——学术界和杂志界。艾哈迈德探讨了批判理论对移民的颂扬,将其作为越界的隐喻,这是一种放弃熟悉的、传统的和安全的思维模式,开始跨越国界和界限的冒险的象征性行为。我自己关于物理空间中的字面迁移的假设与这种隐喻意义混为一谈,因为我认为这是一种解放性的举动,可以反思和重新发明自己,摆脱我感到窒息的民族身份。我的实际移民经历结果是错位和孤立。为了逃避焦虑情绪,我在另一个比喻中寻求庇护:学术界,以及后来的杂志界作为另一种“家园”。

更新日期:2023-02-28
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