Abstract

ABSTRACT: This article explores the relations between W. E. B. Du Bois's concept of "double-consciousness" and the gutter, a specific component of the language of comics and graphic narratives in general, in order to read the graphic novel Rosebush, Medal, Plantation and Other Stories by the Brazilian author and illustrator Jefferson Costa. To make the connection, the article further uses the themes of a "crossroads" and "spiraling time" associated with the Brazilian theorist Leda Maria Martins, Homi Bhabha's espousal of "in-between spaces," and Umberto Eco's notion of the "unsaid." Bringing these conceptual areas together helps to approach Costa's work in terms of its support for his Afro-Brazilian roots, and in such a crossing, the gutter becomes a metaphor for counter-hegemonic, identity-producing discursive practices associated with Afrofuturism.

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