Diamond Princess II
This graphic tale takes place among a group of six passengers from the Diamond Princess — a cruise ship which formed a COVID-19 cluster in the beginning of 2020 — who meet later in the city of Yokohama, Japan. They need to discuss a collective condition: a mental communication between them, which th...
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openedition-oai:revues.org:angles_3580 https://doi.org/10.4000/angles.3580 urn:doi:10.4000/angles.3580 en https://journals.openedition.org/angles/3580 2021-05-05T02:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/9n1d https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Diamond Princess II Angles Société des Anglicistes de l'Enseignement Supérieur info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/2274-2042 URI:https://journals.openedition.org/angles Barbuda, Amine art surréalisme COVID-19 roman graphique communication illustration contamination art surrealism COVID-19 graphic novel communication illustration contamination This graphic tale takes place among a group of six passengers from the Diamond Princess — a cruise ship which formed a COVID-19 cluster in the beginning of 2020 — who meet later in the city of Yokohama, Japan. They need to discuss a collective condition: a mental communication between them, which they don’t know whether it can be attributed to the treatment they received or to the original illness. The main references for this graphic tale are the movies El ángel exterminador (1962) and Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie (1972), both written and directed by Luís Buñuel. The movies, immersed in a surrealist atmosphere created by the relationships between the characters, bring elements to the script that were observed at the Diamond Princess, such as people held up in a location by an “invisible force,” a sense of broken communication, and the spread of misleading information. These are some issues that we now have to face during the pandemic: a combined breakdown and continuous flow of (mis)communication which challenges the referential framework of the world we inhabit, outsourcing reflexive power onto international bodies (such as the WHO), social media (through biographical text and video), or the reader. Ce récit graphique se déroule au sein d'un groupe de six passagers du Diamond Princess, un bateau de croisière qui connut un cas de contamination collective par COVID-19 au début de l'année 2020, qui se retrouvent plus tard dans la ville de Yokohama, au Japon. Ils doivent discuter d'une pathologie à caractère collectif : une communication mentale entre eux, dont ils ne savent pas si elle est imputable au traitement qu'ils ont reçu ou à la maladie originelle. Les principales références de ce récit graphique sont les films El ángel exterminador (1962) et Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie (1972), tous deux écrits et réalisés par Luís Buñuel. Ces films, plongés dans une atmosphère surréaliste à travers la relation des personnages, apportent au scénario des éléments qui ont été observés au Diamond Princess, tels que des personnes bloquées dans un lieu par une « force invisible », le sentiment d'une communication rompue, et des informations trompeuses. Ce sont là certaines des questions auxquelles nous devons faire face aujourd'hui pendant la pandémie : une rupture parallèle et un flux continu de (mauvaises ou fausses) communications qui remettent en question le cadre référentiel du monde dans lequel nous vivons, tout en externalisant le processus de réflexion vers des organismes internationaux (comme l’OMS) ou les réseaux sociaux (par le biais de textes et de vidéos biographiques), ou encore le lecteur. |
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This graphic tale takes place among a group of six passengers from the Diamond Princess — a cruise ship which formed a COVID-19 cluster in the beginning of 2020 — who meet later in the city of Yokohama, Japan. They need to discuss a collective condition: a mental communication between them, which they don’t know whether it can be attributed to the treatment they received or to the original illness. The main references for this graphic tale are the movies El ángel exterminador (1962) and Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie (1972), both written and directed by Luís Buñuel. The movies, immersed in a surrealist atmosphere created by the relationships between the characters, bring elements to the script that were observed at the Diamond Princess, such as people held up in a location by an “invisible force,” a sense of broken communication, and the spread of misleading information. These are some issues that we now have to face during the pandemic: a combined breakdown and continuous flow of (mis)communication which challenges the referential framework of the world we inhabit, outsourcing reflexive power onto international bodies (such as the WHO), social media (through biographical text and video), or the reader. |
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