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Belonging by nora krug5/19/2023 This talk is presented in partnership with The Center for Cartoon Studies, The Leslie Center of Humanities at Dartmouth College, and The Will and Ann Eisner Family Foundation. It is a kaleidoscope of interrupted lives, leading inexorably to its ultimate conclusion. The interview is available for veiwing at this link: Nora Krug’s book Belonging is a heart-wrenching, suspenseful and fascinating odyssey that straddles, and seeks to uncover, an uncharted, inaccessible, unfathomable past. Krug gives a reading from her memoir, while sharing the intricate pages of illustrations, photos, and hand-written text of her novel. While Nora Krug was not able to join us in the Upper Valley for this year's Spring Eisner Lecture, The Center for Cartoon Studies has provided a video recording of their interview with her. A wholly original record of a German woman's struggle with the weight of catastrophic history, Belonging is also a reflection on the responsibility that we all have as inheritors of our countries' pasts. In this highly inventive visual memoir-equal parts graphic novel, family scrapbook, and investigative narrative-Nora Krug draws on letters, archival material, flea market finds, and photographs to attempt to understand what it means to belong. Nora Krug is a German-American author and illustrator whose drawings and visual narratives have appeared in publications including The New York Times, The Guardian, Le Monde diplomatique and A Public Space, and in anthologies published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Simon and Schuster and Chronicle Books.īelonging wrestles with the idea of 'Heimat', the German word for the place that first forms us, where the sensibilities and identity of one generation pass on to the next.
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