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For Anna Giaufret, comic is a genre torn between the desire to go against the standard norm and the will to respect it (2019, p. 116). These two attitudes towards language – one in favor of varieties and the other leaning on the standard – are both staged in Acadian comics Acadieman (2002-2017) by Dano LeBlanc and Capitaine Acadie (2019 et 2021) by Daniel and Dany Bouffard. More specifically, I will study the three first issues of Acadieman and the two volumes of Capitaine Acadie. My hypothesis is that a normative language goes hand in hand with normative aesthetics and representations. Conversely, the use of a more flexible language not only exposes the “low” and non-normative, but also allows for the play with different kinds of norms.
Keywords: Bande dessinée, littérature acadienne, chiac, Acadieman, Capitaine Acadie, Comics, Acadian literature, chiac, Acadieman, Capitaine Acadie
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It is not easy to explain the traditional photographic novel's poverty of inspiration and formal treatment.Invoking the impact of economic constraints and the sociological characteristics of its readership has for too lon thwarted a searching reflection on the subject. In focusing on the expressive limitations of the photo novel, some contemporary critiques force us to shift our gaze from the aesthetic or thematic, to the material aspects of the medium. Following Jan Baetens' lead, this article retraces a number of strategies at work in recent exemplars of the genre.