Journal | Il Tolomeo
Monographic journal issue | 23 | 2021
Research Article | Yallah Bye or the Dream of a Farewell to War

Yallah Bye or the Dream of a Farewell to War

Abstract

Yallah Bye, an album published by Lombard (2015), illustrates two wars marking the contemporary history of Lebanon: the civil war (1975-1990) and the war between Israel and Hezbollah (August 2006). There is an intersection between two visions: that of a Lebanese screenwriter who tells a universal autobiographical story and that of a Korean illustrator who is committed to create an authentic figurative narration. The aim of the article is to show how this medium constitutes a documentary source within the framework of a cultural and social history. By exposing the repercussions of the 2006 war, images and text reveal, via humour and denial, a dream of peace despite the current turmoil and the obsession with a past that keeps repeating itself.


Open access | Peer reviewed

Submitted: Aug. 22, 2021 | Accepted: Oct. 19, 2021 | Published Dec. 20, 2021 | Language: fr

Keywords Resilience • War • Obsession • Lebanon • Traumatism

Copyright © 2021 Maha Badr. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/Tol/2499-5975/2021/23/027


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