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THE HUMAN RIGHTS GRAPHIC NOVEL IBD

ROUTLEDGE INDIA
11 / 2020
9780367626822
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This 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, ácomfort women in World War II andáthe Civil Rights movement in the USA, to mention a few.The book demonstrates the emergence of the âÇÖuniversalâÇÖ 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, whicháportrays the construction of vulnerable subjects, the cultural trauma of collectives, the crisis and necessity of witnessing, and resilience-resistance througháspecific 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 âÇÖcultureâÇÖ and theálingua francaáof human rights due to its amenability to experimentation and the sheer range within the form.áThe 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.á

PVP
95,01