Full Description
This interdisciplinary volume explores how graphic narratives engage with urgent global issues—ranging from identity, trauma, and health to racial injustice, reproductive rights, disability, and ecological awareness. Featuring contributions from the U.S., Brazil, India, Canada, and Europe, the book highlights comics as powerful tools for storytelling, healing, and activism. It offers a globally relevant, intersectional perspective across fields such as graphic medicine, gender studies, disability studies, and environmental humanities. Organized into four thematic sections, the volume demonstrates how visual storytelling can challenge dominant narratives and foster empathy. With chapters analyzing Brazilian racial justice comics, American graphic medicine, and Indian ecological storytelling, the book is essential for scholars, students, educators, artists, and activists in Comics Studies, Cultural Studies, and Visual Arts. It invites readers to explore the transformative potential of comics in both academic and creative contexts.
Contents
Documenting Activism, Drawing Resistance: An Introduction.- This Can't Be America Intersecting Communities in Big Black Stand at Attica.- Transitional justice and comic books: racial injustice and resistance in the work of Marcelo D'Salete.- The Foregrounding of Intersectionality and Disability Experiences through Focalization Techniques in Alison Bechdel's The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For (2008).- Beyond Graphic Medicine: Reproductive Choice Comics in the Contemporary U.S.- Superhero Healthcare.- Visualizing Crip/Queer Time in Comics Life Writing: A Meta-Autobiographical Graphic Essay.- "Innocence Lost": Unplanned Motherhood, Child Abuse, and Survival through Brutality in Halim Mahmoudi's graphic novel Little Mama.
