Wielokulturowe dzieciństwo w Arabie przyszłości Riada Sattoufa
Multicultural Childhood in The Arab of the Future by Riad Sattouf

Summary/Abstract: The subject of this article is Riad Sattouf’s multi-volume autobiographical graphic novel The Arab of the Future (2014– ), the author’s account of his childhood spent in a mixed family and two different countries and cultures, Syrian and French. The first part of the paper reflects on the concepts of narrative identity and Otherness, including the Otherness of the child, in the context of the ‘redrawn,’ double narrative characteristic of the autobiographical graphic novel. The second part examines how Sattouf employs the form of a comic book, first to define his identity by creating a coherent narrative, and second, to tell the reader about his experience of the Otherness related to growing up in two different cultures

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