Human Rights in Graphic Life Narrative : Reading and Witnessing Violations of the 'Other' in Anglophone Works

consideration of life writing, comics and human rights studies, and comparative in approach," "this 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. [Publisher's Text]

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