Ecosophical Exploration of War and Violence in Graphic Novel Vanni: A Representational Visual Meta-Function Analysis
Abstract
The present study focuses on the correlation between ecosophy and visual grammar. For this purpose, this study incorporates Guattari’s ecosophy through the model of Kress and Van Leeuwen’s visual grammar(2006) to trace the environmental crisis in the graphic novel ‘Vanni: A Family’s Struggle through the Sri Lankan Conflict’ (2009). The study is qualitative in nature based on multimodal discourse analysis. The findings of the study developed arguments for an ecosophical lens as a way of creating a change of vision within our ethical, social, and political spaces. Through the representational, interactive, and compositional meanings represented in Vanni's visuals, Felix Guattari's ecosophies highlight the trauma of war and its impact on people and the environment.
Key terms: Guattari’s ecosophy, visual grammar, Vanni, multimodality
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Naess, A. (1995). The shallow and the long range, deep ecology movement. The deep ecology movement: an introductory anthology (pp. 3–10). North Atlantic Books.
Qoriah, D. (2018). Ideational meaning of HIV aids slogans: A systemic functional linguistic study.
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Satrapi, M. (2008). Persepolis. Random House.
Stibbe, A. (2015). Ecolinguistics: Language, ecology and the stories we live by. London and NewYork: Routledge.
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Trampe, W. (2017). Euphemisms for killing animals and for other forms of their use. The Routledge Handbook of Ecolinguistics, 325-341 https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315687391- 22
Published
2022-03-31
How to Cite
ABBAS, Afshan; JANJUA, Fauzia.
Ecosophical Exploration of War and Violence in Graphic Novel Vanni: A Representational Visual Meta-Function Analysis.
University of Chitral Journal of Linguistics & Literature, [S.l.], v. 6, n. I, p. 144-159, mar. 2022.
ISSN 2663-1512.
Available at: <https://jll.uoch.edu.pk/index.php/journal10/article/view/368>. Date accessed: 26 mar. 2023.
doi: https://doi.org/10.33195/jll.v6iI.368.
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