![]() ![]() ![]() Keywords: Zeina Abirached, autobiography, graphic novel, Lebanon, memory, space, war She also discusses the influence of OuLiPo, and especially the writings of Georges Perec, on her comics. She focuses especially here on the dimensions of time and space, history and geography, and memory and autobiography in her work. In this artist's statement, originally written for a keynote lecture given at the American Bande Dessinée Society conference held at Miami University (Oxford, Ohio) on 3 November 2012, she presents her four comic books published to date, all of them autobiographical: Catharsis (2006), 38, rue Youssef Semaani (2006), Mourir, partir, revenir: Le jeu des hirondelles (2007), published in English as A Game for Swallows: To Die, To Live, To Return (2012), and Je me souviens: Beyrouth (2008), published in English as I Remember Beirut (2014). Zeina Abirached, born in 1981 in Beirut, is a cartoonist who studied at the Académie libanaise des beaux-arts (ALBA) in Beirut and the École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs in Paris, France. ![]()
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