Migration and return to the homeland — analysis of the comic book “Return HERE”

Abstract

The aim of the article is to analyze emigration experiences, the perception of the motherland, and the construction of identity in the perspective of a graphic story — a comic book. The article analyzes the content of Karolina Chyżewska’s comic book Return Here. The emigration experiences of the comic’s main character were presented using the categories generated during the analysis. Important codes for analyzing the material were: the question “who am I?” and an attempt to answer it; a mother’s memories; Polish-German cultural differences (including the image of women, male-female relations, taboos); the concept of the motherland; and the relationship between mother and daughter.