Ulysses’s mythical voyage is told in the Ancient Greek epic poem The Odyssey, attributed to Greek poet Homer. It tells of the warrior’s return home after the Trojan War, which takes him ten years, during which time his son Telemachus and his wife Penelope must fend off the pretenders eager to sit in his throne.
Ulysses the Immigrant. A Graphic Fantasy reviews the hero’s voyage in images, sound and text, a counterpoint of literary and audiovisual formats bringing together very different materials and iconographies. The Odyssey is posited as a polyhedric trigger of analogy, metaphor and critical resonance regarding issues such as contemporary subjectivity, immigration and exile. Through archive fragments and diverse sources such as animation, sound and allusive music and excentric references to fidelity, and anachronism, using graphic and pictorial grammar, the journey is told as a form of kaleidoscope.
