{"product_id":"the-human-rights-graphic-novel-drawing-it-just-right-paperback","title":"The Human Rights Graphic Novel: Drawing it Just Right - 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\u003ePramod K. Nayar\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book studies human rights discourse across a variety of graphic novels, both fiction and non-fiction, originating in different parts of the world, from India to South Africa, Sarajevo to Vietnam, with texts on the Holocaust, the Partition of the Indian subcontinent, the Rwandan and Sarajevan genocides, the Vietnam War, comfort women in World War II and the Civil Rights movement in the USA, to mention a few.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe book demonstrates the emergence of the 'universal' subject of human rights, despite the variations in contexts. It shows how war, rape, genocide, abuse, social iniquity, caste and race erode personhood in multiple ways in the graphic novel, which portrays the construction of vulnerable subjects, the cultural trauma of collectives, the crisis and necessity of witnessing, and resilience-resistance through specific representational and aesthetic strategies. It covers a large number of authors and artists: Joe Sacco, Joe Kubert, Matt Johnson-Walter Pleece, Guy Delisle, Appupen, Thi Bui, Olivier Kugler and others. Through a study of these vastly different authors and styles, the book proposes that the graphic novel as a form is perfectly suited to the 'culture' and the \u003cem\u003elingua franca\u003c\/em\u003e of human rights due to its amenability to experimentation and the sheer range within the form. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe book will appeal to scholars in comics studies, human rights studies, visual culture studies and to the general reader with an interest in these fields. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePramod K. Nayar teaches at the Department of English, University of Hyderabad, India. His most recent books include \u003ci\u003eIndian Travel Writing in the Age of Empire, 1830-1940 \u003c\/i\u003e(2020); \u003ci\u003eEcoprecarity: Vulnerable Lives in Culture and Literature \u003c\/i\u003e(Routledge, 2019); \u003ci\u003eBrand Postcolonial: 'Third World' Texts and the Global \u003c\/i\u003e(2018); \u003ci\u003eBhopal's Ecological Gothic: Disaster, Precarity and the Biopolitical Uncanny \u003c\/i\u003e(2017); \u003ci\u003eHuman Rights and Literature: Writing Rights \u003c\/i\u003e(2016); \u003ci\u003eCitizenship and Identity in the Age of Surveillance \u003c\/i\u003e(2015); \u003ci\u003ePosthumanism \u003c\/i\u003e(2013); \u003ci\u003eFrantz Fanon \u003c\/i\u003e(2013); the edited collections, \u003ci\u003eColonial Education and India, 1781-1945 \u003c\/i\u003e(Routledge, 2019); \u003ci\u003eWomen in Colonial India: Historical Documents and Sources \u003c\/i\u003e(Routledge, 2014); and \u003ci\u003eWriting Wrongs: The Cultural Constructions of Human Rights in India \u003c\/i\u003e(Routledge, 2012).\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 212\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 9.4 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 26, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52488920498483,"sku":"9780367626822","price":122.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/MnpZMTJYQXA5Mm9ScG1ieGlWNmxJdz09.webp?v=1759892214","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/the-human-rights-graphic-novel-drawing-it-just-right-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}