{"product_id":"human-rights-in-graphic-life-narrative-reading-and-witnessing-violations-of-the-other-in-anglophone-works-paperback","title":"Human Rights in Graphic Life Narrative: Reading and Witnessing Violations of the 'Other' in Anglophone Works - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eOlga Michael\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSurveying 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 Kh?lif\u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eFrancesca Sanna\u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003eGabi Froden, Benjamin Dix and Lindsay Pollock, \u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eas well as Safdar Ahmed and Ali Dorani\/Eaten Fish. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Interdisciplinary in its consideration of life writing, comics and human rights studies, and comparative in approach, \u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003ethis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOlga Michael \u003c\/b\u003eis 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\u003cb\u003e. \u003c\/b\u003eShe has written chapters for \u003ci\u003eThe Palgrave Handbook of Testimony and Culture \u003c\/i\u003e(eds. Sara Jones and Roger Woods, 2023), \u003ci\u003eRepresentations of 21st Century Migration into Europe \u003c\/i\u003e(eds. Nelson Gonz?lez-Ortega and Ana Bel?n Mart?nez Garc?a, 2022) and \u003ci\u003eAutofiction in English\u003c\/i\u003e (ed. Hywel Dix, 2018) and her articles have appeared in such journals as\u003ci\u003e Journal of Perpetrator Research\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eStudies in Twentieth and Twenty-First-Century Literature\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly, a\/b: Auto\/Biography Studies\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLife Writing, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eJournal of Graphic Novels and Comics\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eImageText\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 272\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.57 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 20, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52704130826547,"sku":"9781350329799","price":78.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/agjYjZ-Wag9781350329799.webp?v=1763348266","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/human-rights-in-graphic-life-narrative-reading-and-witnessing-violations-of-the-other-in-anglophone-works-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}