Les enjeux sociaux d’une narration sérielle fictive : Little Sammy Sneeze de Winsor McCay (1904-1906)

• Main Author: Françoise Revaz
• Format: Article
• Language: fra
• Published: Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Récits Cultures Et Sociétés 2016-12-01
• Series: Cahiers de Narratologie
• Subjects: comic strips; intrigue; parody; satire; series; stops comics
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/narratologie/7593

The aim of this article is to show that the series of comic strips Little Sammy Sneeze has the characteristic of being both “recreational” and “political”. Under the guise of an entertaining narrative sketch giving, each week, a new occurrence of devastating little Sammy’s sneeze, McCay takes a critical and satirical look, not only on the serial production mode of the contemporary comics, but also on the way of life of the American middle class.This example will make it possible to examine the relevance of the dichotomous distinction between the fictive literature where its sole purpose would be to provide the reader with entertaining adventures and the factual literature that would have a monopoly on social and political questions.