Print-based texts can be multimodal, multivocal generic hybrids too

Print-based texts can be multimodal, multivocal generic hybrids too.

This is a picture of me holding my copy of Aleksandar Hemon's The Lazarus Project:

The book :

• contains text and pictures (some ambiguous ones taken by Hemon's friend, others of the corpse of Lazarus, a real-life Jewish immigrant shot by the head of Chicago's police);



• reworks (lifting from contemporary newspapers, some invention) the anti-immigrant discourse of early C20th USA



• blurs generic boundaries (fiction/autobiography - main character is a Bosnian immigrant like Hemon)