Category: graphic memoir

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+ belonging: a german reckons with history and home, germany, graphic memoir, graphic novels, holocaust, nazi, nora krug, world war ii

Indoctrination Through Education in Nora Krug’s “Belonging”

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Nora Krug begins her graphic memoir Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home with an anecdote about one of her first encounters in New York. On the rooftop of a friend’s apartment building, an elderly woman struck up a conversation with Krug, asking her where she was from. When Krug affirmed that she was from Germany, the woman began to relate “how she had survived … Read More Indoctrination Through Education in Nora Krug’s “Belonging”

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+ graphic memoir, graphic novels, iran, marjane satratpi, memoir, persepolis

We Must Keep You Afraid Because When You Are Afraid, You Are Not Free

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Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis covers a large period of time following the Islamic Revolution in Iran during the later 1970s. While the memoir traces Satrapi’s journey as her and her family navigate the authoritarianism that followed the revolution, her own experiences and insight provide us with insights into the psychological impacts of authoritarianism and the ways that it works to essentially squash any form of self-thought and … Read More We Must Keep You Afraid Because When You Are Afraid, You Are Not Free

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+ black reconstruction, frank yerby, graphic memoir, graphic novels, Pedagogy, the vixens

“We have too often a deliberate attempt so to change the facts of history that the story will make pleasant reading for Americans”: Bossier Massacre Graphic Text

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Whenever I have a course that focuses on comics or graphic narratives, I usually have students create their own graphic text. For this assignment, students have the choice of either doing a script or an actual, completed graphic text. They can work solo or together, use photos, and essentially approach the assignment in any way they want to approach it. This semester, I assigned this … Read More “We have too often a deliberate attempt so to change the facts of history that the story will make pleasant reading for Americans”: Bossier Massacre Graphic Text

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+ ernest j gaines, graphic memoir, graphic novels, graphic travelogue, guy delisle, Jerusalem: Chronicles from the Holy City, Palestine

Who’d Want to Read It?

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Guy Delisle spent a year living in Jerusalem as his partner worked for an NGO in the West Bank and Gaza. He detailed his experience in Jerusalem: Chronicles from the Holy City. During that year, Delisle led comics’ workshops in various cities in the West Bank including Nablus and Ramallah. At an event in Nablus he notes that the level of the artists “is not … Read More Who’d Want to Read It?

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+ anna seghers, graphic memoir, graphic novels, joe sacco, keum suk gendry-kim, mana neyestani, marjane satratpi, nora krug, rutu modan, syllabus

World Literature and Graphic Novel Syllabus

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Last semester, I taught a course entitled The Reverberations of World War II where students read works by Anna Seghers, Victor Serge, Magda Szabó, Intizar Husain, and Yasa Katsuei. The course focused, specifically, on the lead up to the war (Katsuei), the war itself (Seghers, Serge, and Szabó), and the aftermath of the war (Szabó and Husain) across the world from Korea to France to Hungary … Read More World Literature and Graphic Novel Syllabus

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