Elīza Paula Graudiņa’s article on memoirs and haiku poetics has been published in the "Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics"
An article by Elīza Paula Graudiņa, a research assistant at the Institute of Literature, Folklore and Arts of University of Latvia, titled “Between memoir and haiku: architextual tension in the graphic novel ‘Siberian Haiku’”.
In this article, the author examines the graphic novel 'Siberian Haiku' by Lithuanian authors Jurga Vilė and Lina Itagaki, analyzing the interplay between the two genres found therein—memoir and haiku. Drawing on Gérard Genette’s concept of architextuality and Lars Elleström’s theory of multimediality and multimodality, the article examines how the interaction between text and image shapes the portrayal of historical trauma.
The study demonstrates how memoirs provide a documentary continuity of historical experience, while the poetics of haiku break it down into distinct, emotionally charged moments. Thus, the graphic novel allows us to perceive historical trauma not only as a fact of the past, but also as an emotionally present and still unresolved experience.