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International Journal of Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage
Graphic novel; creative narratives; pilgrimage; Camino de Santiago
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Representing And Performing Pilgrimage In A Comic Book: On The Camino, Lucrezia Lopez
Representing And Performing Pilgrimage In A Comic Book: On The Camino, Lucrezia Lopez
International Journal of Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage
Over the last few decades, comic books and graphic novels have become valid literary sources within the humanities and social sciences. This paper addresses a new creative and performative artistic expression of the European pilgrimage route the Camino de Santiago in Spain through examining the autobiographical graphic novel On the Camino, written by the Norwegian cartoonist Jason (2017), which introduces a new way of sharing pilgrimage experiences through combining pictorial and literary devices. Here, the focus is on the dynamic paradigm that arises beyond the ‘fixed sequential images’ in the graphic novel and the role of readers in the spatial …