Human Rights in Graphic Life Narrative: Reading and Witnessing Violations of the 'Other' in Anglophone...

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Dr Olga Michael

Human Rights in Graphic Life Narrative

Reading and Witnessing Violations of the 'Other' in Anglophone Works

Dr Olga Michael

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Bloomsbury Academic
21 September 2023

Graphic novels: true stories & non-fiction; Human rights; Civil rights & citizenship; Trauma & shock

Series: New Directions in Life Narrative

Surveying print and digital graphic life narratives about people who become ‘othered’ within Western contexts, this book investigates how comics and graphic novels witness human rights transgressions in contemporary Anglophone culture and how they can promote social justice. With thought given to how the graphic form can offer a powerful counterpoint to the legal, humanitarian and media discourses that dehumanise the most violated and dispossessed, but also how these works may unconsciously reproduce Western neo-colonial presentations of the ‘other,’ Olga Michael focuses on gender, death, space, and border violence within graphic life narratives depicting suffering across different geo- and biopolitical locations. Combining the familiar with the lesser-known, this book covers works by artists such as Joe Sacco, Thi Bui, Mia Kirshner, Phoebe Gloeckner, Kamel Khélif, Francesca Sanna, Gabi Froden, Benjamin Dix and Lindsay Pollock, as well as Safdar Ahmed and Ali Dorani/Eaten Fish.

Interdisciplinary in its consideration of life writing, comics and human rights studies, and comparative in approach, this book explores such topics as the aesthetics of visualised suffering; spatial articulations of human rights violations; the occurrence of violations whilst crossing borders; the gendered dimensions of visually captured violence; and how human rights discourses intersect with graphic depictions of the dead. In so doing, Michael establishes how to read human rights and social justice comics in relation to an escalating global crisis and deftly complicates negotiations of ‘otherness.’ A vitally important work to the humanities sector, this book underscores the significance of postcolonial decolonized reading acts as forms of secondary witness.

By: Dr Olga Michael
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781350329751
ISBN 10: 1350329754
Series: New Directions in Life Narrative
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 21 September 2023
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Olga Michael is an independent scholar based in Cyprus. She completed this monograph during her postdoctoral research fellowship (2020-2022) in the English Studies department at the University of Cyprus. She has written chapters for The Palgrave Handbook of Testimony and Culture (eds. Sara Jones and Roger Woods, 2023), Representations of 21st Century Migration into Europe (eds. Nelson González-Ortega and Ana Belén Martínez García, 2022) and Autofiction in English (ed. Hywel Dix, 2018) and her articles have appeared in such journals as Journal of Perpetrator Research, Studies in Twentieth and Twenty-First-Century Literature, Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly, a/b: Auto/Biography Studies, Life Writing, Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics and ImageText.