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Human Rights in Graphic Life Narrative by Dr Olga Michael (Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of English Studies, University of Cyprus, University of Cyprus, Cyprus)

Reading and Witnessing Violations of the 'Other' in Anglophone Works
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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 Khelif, 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.

An exploration of how Anglophone graphic life narratives bear witness to human rights violations to offer a counterpoint to notions of 'otherness' concerning refugees, asylum seekers and migrants from around the world.

About the Author
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 Gonzalez-Ortega and Ana Belen Martinez Garcia, 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.


Book Information
ISBN 9781350329799
Author Dr Olga Michael
Format Paperback
Page Count 272
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Series New Directions in Life Narrative

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Subtitle:
Reading and Witnessing Violations of the 'Other' in Anglophone Works
Series:
New Directions in Life Narrative
Imprint:
Bloomsbury Academic

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