Acasă Articole RTR Dizabilitate, istorie și reprezentare vizuală: narativele grafice ca spații de contrainscripție
Dizabilitate, istorie și reprezentare vizuală: narativele grafice ca spații de contrainscripție
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Disability, History, and Visual Representation: Graphic Narratives as Spaces of Counter-Inscription
Abstract:This article explores how graphic narratives can illuminate the history of disability by representing experiences that conventional historiographical approaches often overlook. Focusing on three works—Bill Griffith’s Nobody’s Fool, Mikaël Ross’s Der Umfall, and Dan Ungureanu’s Spune-mi Eli—the study analyses how visual storytelling reconstructs the lives of individuals with intellectual disabilities across different historical and political contexts in the United States, Germany, and Romania. While each narrative engages distinct local histories, they share a commitment to recovering marginalized voices and documenting forms of institutionalisation, trauma, care, and agency. Through a close reading of their visual and narrative strategies, the article argues that graphic narratives function as spaces of counterinscription that disrupt dominant historical narratives, foreground subjective experience, and materialise memories that traditional archives frequently silence. In doing so, the article highlights the methodological value of comics for disability history and for rethinking the relationship between visual representation, testimony, and historical knowledge.
Key words: Disability history, graphic narratives, comics
Citation suggestion: Dinu, Radu Harald. “Dizabilitate, istorie și reprezentare vizuală: narativele grafice ca spații de contrainscripție”. Transilvania, no. 1-2 (2026): 121-134.
https://doi.org/10.51391/trva.2026.1-2.11.
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