TY - JOUR AU - Storskog, Camilla PY - 2021/05/31 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Into the Blue. The Visualization of Building Walls and Transgressing Borders in Scandorama by Hannele MikaelaTaivassalo and Catherine Anyango Grünewald JF - Altre Modernità JA - AMonline VL - IS - 25 SE - Saggi Ensayos Essais Essays DO - 10.13130/2035-7680/15547 UR - https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/AMonline/article/view/15547 SP - 121-136 AB - <p>This essay examines Scandorama, a graphic novel from 2018 scripted by<br>the Finland-Swedish writer Hannele Mikaela Taivassalo and drawn by the Kenyan-<br>Swedish artist Catherine Anyango Grünewald. The work is read as a comment to<br>unsettling trends in contemporary Scandinavia such as rising nationalisms, antiimmigrant<br>sentiments, and the destruction of nature. Special attention is given to how<br>the issues of building walls and transgressing borders are recorded not only on a<br>verbal level but, first and foremost, to the ways in which these concerns are entrusted<br>to the visual code of comics. It is argued that the chromatic structure employed in the<br>book creates a visual subtext expressing the dystopian theme embedded in<br>Scandorama. Through the use of a single colour, blue, in a monochrome storyworld,<br>the idea of erecting walls and transgressing borders is backed up and expressed in at<br>least three contexts investigated in the article: (1) ‘othering’; (2) architecture; (3) body<br>and mind. Here, the dramaturgical potential of colour combines with motives such as<br>government surveillance, loss of individualism, genetic engineering, futuristic<br>technology, environmental destruction, and urban settings to produce a dystopian<br>‘blueprint’.</p> ER -