Hugo Pratt’s and Milo Manara’s Indian Summer: An Italian “Source” for The Scarlet Letter
Hugo Pratt’s and Milo Manara’s Indian Summer: An Italian “Source” for The Scarlet Letter

Summary/Abstract: This paper examines the allusions of Milo Manara’s and Hugo Pratt’s graphic novel, Tutto ricominciò con un’estate indiana (Indian Summer), to Hawthorne’s novel The Scarlett Letter in a variety of ways. In particular, this paper argues that not only some of Pratt and Manara’s characters are very liberal, creative reinventions of Hawthorne’s figures—they might be seen as “spin-offs” of Hawthorne’s narrative—but in many ways Indian Summer is also thematically close to The Scarlet Letter.

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