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Redrawing History: Visual Postmemory in Tardi’s 120, rue de la Gare
- Mosaic: a journal for the interdisciplinary study of literature
- Mosaic, an interdisciplinary critical journal
- Volume 49, Number 1, March 2016
- pp. 73-92
- 10.1353/mos.2016.0004
- Article
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This essay explores ways in which Tardi’s adaptation marks the otherwise apolitical narrative with historical indicators. Through the comics medium and the prolific use of shifting signifiers and monikers, the text grapples with the uneasy notion of a national identity threatened by Nazi occupation and the legacy of WWII.