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- The Cambridge Companion to Human Rights and Literature
- The Cambridge Companion to Human Rights and Literature
- Copyright page
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Chronology of Major Works and Events, 1215–2018
- Introduction
- Part I Genealogies and Contexts
- Part II Fashioning Methods
- Part III Generic Representations
- 9 Narrating the Human Person
- 10 The Dramas of Human Rights
- 11 Poetic Justice and the Idea of Poetic Redress
- 12 Truth-Telling
- 13 Visualizing the World
- Part IV Writing Human Rights
- Select Bibliography
- Index
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13 - Visualizing the World
Graphic Novels, Comics, and Human Rights
from Part III - Generic Representations
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 June 2019
- The Cambridge Companion to Human Rights and Literature
- The Cambridge Companion to Human Rights and Literature
- Copyright page
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Chronology of Major Works and Events, 1215–2018
- Introduction
- Part I Genealogies and Contexts
- Part II Fashioning Methods
- Part III Generic Representations
- 9 Narrating the Human Person
- 10 The Dramas of Human Rights
- 11 Poetic Justice and the Idea of Poetic Redress
- 12 Truth-Telling
- 13 Visualizing the World
- Part IV Writing Human Rights
- Select Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Companions To …
Summary
This chapter considers how the rising interest in human rights, humanitarianism, and the humanities has coincided with the arrival of the graphic novel as an object of serious attention in literary studies. To notable effect, comics and graphic novels have in turn taken human rights crises as a central thematic concern: works such as Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis, Magdy El Shafee’s Metro, and the comics of Joe Sacco have all brought international attention to the violence of war, occupation, and political corruption. Paying particular attention to the conjunction of visual, narrative, and textual representations that takes place in the genre, this chapter considers the way in which the graphic novel has taken up both documentary and advocacy functions in regards to human rights.
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- The Cambridge Companion to Human Rights and Literature , pp. 178 - 190Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019
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