Olga Michael

Human Rights in Graphic Life Narrative

Reading and Witnessing Violations of the 'Other' in Anglophone Works
Herausgeber: Douglas, Kate; Poletti, Anna; Zuern, John David

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. März 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781350329799
• ISBN-10: 1350329797
• Artikelnr.: 70273168

Autorenporträt

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 González-Ortega and Ana Belén Martínez García, 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.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Human Rights and 'Others' in Graphic Life Narratives Chapter
1: Precarious Femininities, and Gendered Inequalities Chapter 2: Graphic
Martyria and Male Suffering Chapter 3: Graphic Thanatopoetics and the
In/Visible Spectacle of Death Chapter 4: Graphic Topopoetics and Spatial
(In)justice Chapter 5: Western Borders, Violence, and Ponos Conclusion:
Final Remarks on the Implications of Reading Graphic Life Narratives (and)
Bearing Witness to Other People's Distant Suffering Bibliography Index