55. ELENA SIMIONI ♀
Information acquired: 2025
ELENA SIMIONI is an academic who published a paper in 2019 entitled Se ,,ébrouiller à Dakar : langue (s) et culture (s) urbaines dans la bande dessinée Goorgoorlou de T. ELENA SIMIONI published this work as part of a team: Simioni, Elena. Here is a description of this work: <div> <p>In his successful comics series <i>Goorgoorlou</i>, the Senegalese journalist and cartoonist T.T. Fons depicts the difficulties of the day-to-day life in Dakar through the tragicomic adventures of the hero Goor, a symbol of the Senegalese everyman struggling with debts, political unrest, social distress and cultural paradoxes. This article introduces the economic, political and cultural context before discussing the linguistic features and the Italian translation of the series. Through vibrant images and a shared urban language, T.T. Fons shapes a national conscience out of a satirical publication and offers the readers a window into the dynamic linguistic landscape of Dakar. Goor speaks to all those who feel abandoned and deceived by the government in a way that truly reflects the mu.