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Reveries of a Family History Muting Present Identity An Analysis of Silence in Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Boy on Earth

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dc.contributor.authorNicholas Rodrigues
dc.date.accessioned2025-03-31T18:51:59Z
dc.date.available2025-03-31T18:51:59Z
dc.date.issued2025-03-31
dc.descriptionThis paper utilizes the term Ryan Twomey coined as "the sequential absence of sound" to analyze the use of silence and how it is represented in various works by Chris Ware. This paper expands Twomey's discussion by solely focusing on Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Boy on Earth and discerns how the sequential absence of sound occurs before, after, and during accounts of the protagonist's and his sister Amy's traumatic family history. Through Twomey's conceptual lens, this paper can identify specific moments in how Amy and Jimmy's identities have been overwritten by a history of racism as seen in the lineage of men who preceded them and how, without access to this family history, they are ill-equipped to relate to each other and move in a positive direction regarding their identities in their present moments. The use of sequential absence of sound thus accentuates these gaps in memory concerning the family's past and the inability to properly cope with the present moment.
dc.description.abstractThis paper analyses how silence, and how it is represented in Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Boy on Earth, corresponds to the development of identity for protagonist Jimmy and his sister Amy, respectively, given their family's traumatic history.
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10222/84916
dc.relation.ispartofAn Analysis of Silence in Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Boy on Earth
dc.titleReveries of a Family History Muting Present Identity An Analysis of Silence in Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Boy on Earth

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