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