�������������Narrating Trauma: Creation of Comics by Heritage Learners�
Sandra Bernal Heredia
Assistant Professor
Spanish Department
Colby College
svbernal@colby.edu
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SP127H Course Calendar
La Chola Power�First Indigenous Female Superheroine in Peru�created in 2008
“Rosita gets scared”
“El Peso Hero”
Maus �by Art Spiegelman�(1986)
Undocumented: The Architecture of Migrant Detention �by Tings Chak�(2014)
Vanni�by Benjamin Dix and Lindsay Pollock (2019)�
Aylan Kurdi, two-year-old Syrian boy whose image made global headlines after he drowned on 2 September 2015 in the Mediterranean Sea along with his mother and brother. Aylan and his family were Syrian refugees trying to reach Europe from Turkey amid the European refugee crisis.
�Understanding Comics (Scott McCloud)�
The Gutter
“This is the third and last night of walking. Almost there.”
“God, please let me
arrive safe and sound.
Thank you, Father.
Amen.”
So much left
to the readers’
Imagination!!!
“Cruzando”
By Jazmin (Colby Student ’23)
Camino a la oportunidad�by Nathaly �
La llegada hacia el norte
By Osbaldo
Temporalities
“Con mucho esfuerzo”
By Domenica
“Adaptándome”
By Kevin
“Un camino largo y difícil”
By Alan
Survey to students about assignment��Question 6. If your comic was about the immigration experience of a relative, did you interview/talk to them for this class? Or did you use the information you had from previous knowledge?
“Camino a la
oportunidad”
By Nathaly
“Xavier”
By Anonymous
“Camino a la
oportunidad”
By Nathaly
Historias de resiliencia y esperanza
Survey to students about assignment��Question 1.How did it feel to tell “your immigration” story in a digital comic strip format?�
Survey to students about assignment ��4. Did developing a visual representation of the characters, scenarios, and ideas made you internalize and reflect about your immigration experience or the ones of your relatives more deeply? How?��
¡Gracias!
svbernal@colby.edu
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Chute, Hillary (2011) “Comics Form and Narrating Lives.”
Chute, Hillary (2016) Disaster Drawn: Visual Witness, Comics and Documentary Form.
Davies, Dominic. (2020) Documenting Trauma in Comics: Traumatic Pasts, Embodied Histories, and Graphic Reportage.
Gundogan Ibrisim, Deniz. (2020) “Trauma: Beyond PTSD and Pathological Closure in Contemporary Literature.”
Harris, Sarah. (2015) “I had not dared to remember”: Trauma and Historical Memory in Recent Spanish Comics
Lapugean, Mirela. (2015) “Speaking about the Unspeakable: Trauma and Representation”
McNicol, Sarah. (2020) “Exploring Trauma and Social Haunting Through Community Comics Creation”
Rodriguez, Hector (2019) “El Pero Hero: Border Stories.”
Sanchez-Muñoz, Ana (2016) “Heritage Language healing? Learners’ attitudes and damage control in a heritage language classroom.”
Valdés, G. (2000). “Teaching heritage languages: An introduction for Slavic- language-teaching professionals.”