Building Characters and Territorial Identities during Socialist Romania, in Comics for Communist Pioneers
Building Characters and Territorial Identities during Socialist Romania, in Comics for Communist Pioneers

Summary/Abstract: This article aims to explore the pedagogical role of comics for pioneers in socialist Romania. To achieve this, I identified and analysed representations of space, of people and their activities in a serial comic titled Vacanţele unui tânăr liniştit [A Peaceful Young Man’s Holidays], from Cutezătorii [The Daring Ones] magazine. The objectives are then to research the production of iconic places and of model characters in these comics and to reach conclusions concerning the construction or production of space and subjects that fit the ideological discourse of socialist and communist Romania. I use visual and discourse analysis to show how the narratives of comics fit into the metanarrative of the regime, constructing territorial identities, and imagined communities. My conclusion is that the discourse of these comics produces ideological representations of space and people.

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