Bewegte Erinnerung.: Zur ,autofiktionalen‘ Erinnerungskonstruktion in den Comics emigrierter Graphic Novel-Autorinnen

This article is concerned with processes of retroactive memory-construction in graphic novels by Marjane Satrapi, Parsua Bashi and Zeina Abirached. These ,autofictional’ works of female migrant graphic novel-authors, currently living in exile, expand a one-dimensional image of emigration by actively involving the reader into the process of producing meaning. Dimensions of temorality such as past, present and future are intermingled within a vast Stream of Comicness, shuttleing between words and images. What historical science literally as well as figuratively can gain by an analysis of these pictorial modes of representation, is a deep understanding of highly individualized acts of remembrance of a vicarious past, disfractured by the loss of time and space and constantly shifting between image and imagination