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    Narrative (De-)Konstruktionen in aktuellen auf Afrika bezogenen Graphic Novels: Emilio Tasso (2014) und Der Traum von Olympia (2015)
    (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2017-03) Rossouw, Ilze Louise; Von Maltzan, Carlotta; Dobstadt, Michael; Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Dept. of Modern Foreign Languages
    ENGLISH ABSTRACT : Emilio Tasso (2014) and Der Traum von Olympia (2015) are two German non-fiction graphic novels that are set in Africa. The former is a documentation of a journalist’s experiences in the Congo and the latter tells the true story of a Somalian runner’s dream to reach the Olympic Games in London. Due to a lack of research in comics and graphic novels in the field of German literature studies, this thesis aims to prove the added value of comics in the context of postcolonial and intercultural literature. The first part of this thesis contains three sections, in which respectively Africa as a discursive construct, the medium of comics and/or graphic novels, as well as narrative aspects of comics-analysis are explored. These sections form the theoretical basis on which the two above mentioned graphic novels are deconstructed (or analysed) in the second part of the thesis.