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, comfort women in World War II and the Civil Rights
movement in the USA, to mention a few. The 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 lingua franca of human rights due to its
amenability to experimentation and the sheer range within the form.
The 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.
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