“There are no cats in America!” The sea voyage in Don Bluth’s “An American Tail” and Shaun Tan’s “The Arrival” as representation of liminal migration experiences - Extended Abstract by Anja Fuchs, Robin Klengel

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“There are no cats in America!” - Szenen der Schiffsüberfahrt in Don Bluths “An American Tail” und Shaun Tans “Ein anderes Land” als Repräsentationen einer liminalen Migrationserfahrung by Anja Fuchs, Robin Klengel

“…This article focuses on the representation of the ship as an essential part of migration and migration narratives by analyzing the accounts of ship passages in Shaun Tan’s graphic novel The Arrival and Don Bluth’s animated film An American Tail. Both depict the ship as a very specific sphere in the migration process, a place of the in-between leading from one country to another and, in that sense, also from one community – or even one existence – to another. …”
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