AbstractsLanguage, Literature & Linguistics

This project focuses on representations of race, and whiteness in particular, in chosen WuMo comics. The field of Critical Whiteness Studies, as it pertains to Nordic Exceptionalism is introduced here, as well as Homi Bhabha’s concept of hybridity and the “Third Space of enunciation”. Representation theory by Stuart Hall, and theories on comics are also incorporated. Finally, a social semiotic approach was chosen to analyse ten of WuMo’s comics. As a result, the narrative of Nordic Exceptionalism is seen as a ‘white’ perspective rooted in colonial discourse, and the comics are interpreted to draw upon this discourse with the assumed purpose of visibilising the ambivalence of this construction/narrative.