The Surrogates: Science-Fiction as MacGuffin
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https://doi.org/10.7203/qf-elit.v14i0.4011Keywords:
genre, graphic novel, Hitchcock, Edgar P. Jacobs, MacGuffin, science-fiction, The Surrogates, The Yellow “M” (La Marque jaune)
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This article presents an analysis of a recent science-fiction graphic novel, The Surrogates. The question we want to tackle is that of the importance of genre labels and expectations, which are clearly conflicting in this case, for science-fiction and graphic novel do not belong to the same (intended) cultural sphere. We shall try to demonstrate that in the case of The Surrogates the wilful confusion of genre characteristics and expectations plays a strategic role in the construction of the work.
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Jan Baetens, KU Leuven
Unit of Literature and Culture Faculty of Arts
Thomas Van Parys, KU Leuven
Unit of Literature and Culture Faculty of Arts
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Baetens, J., & Van Parys, T. (2014). The Surrogates: Science-Fiction as MacGuffin. Quaderns De Filologia - Estudis Literaris, 14, 73–84. https://doi.org/10.7203/qf-elit.v14i0.4011
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