Fidelity versus Appropriation in Comics Adaptation: Jacques Carelman’s and Clément Oubrerie’s Zazie dans le métro
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In: European Comic Art, Vol. 6, No. 1, 2013, p. 88-109.
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T1 - Fidelity versus Appropriation in Comics Adaptation
T2 - Jacques Carelman’s and Clément Oubrerie’s Zazie dans le métro
AU - Blin-Rolland, Armelle
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - Raymond Queneau's 1959 novel Zazie dans le métro has been adapted into two text/image versions, by Jacques Carelman in 1966 and by Clément Oubrerie in 2008. Carelman's version is strongly inscribed in the fidelity discourse, while Oubrerie advocates a process of complete appropriation of the source text by the adapter. This article will explore how the three interrelated aspects of approach to adaptation, text/image combination and readership and reader's experience, shape the transposition of the source text into two strikingly different text/image versions by Carelman and Oubrerie. Focusing on the transposition of the literary voices of the source text, it will discuss the differing manners in which the adapters use the specificity of their chosen medium to make the characters of Zazie dans le métro speak in text and image to their new readers.
AB - Raymond Queneau's 1959 novel Zazie dans le métro has been adapted into two text/image versions, by Jacques Carelman in 1966 and by Clément Oubrerie in 2008. Carelman's version is strongly inscribed in the fidelity discourse, while Oubrerie advocates a process of complete appropriation of the source text by the adapter. This article will explore how the three interrelated aspects of approach to adaptation, text/image combination and readership and reader's experience, shape the transposition of the source text into two strikingly different text/image versions by Carelman and Oubrerie. Focusing on the transposition of the literary voices of the source text, it will discuss the differing manners in which the adapters use the specificity of their chosen medium to make the characters of Zazie dans le métro speak in text and image to their new readers.
U2 - 10.3167/eca.2013.060105
DO - 10.3167/eca.2013.060105
M3 - Article
VL - 6
SP - 88
EP - 109
JO - European Comic Art
JF - European Comic Art
SN - 1754-3797
IS - 1
ER -