Graphic refuge : visuality and mobility in refugee comics / Dominic Davies, Candida Rifkind, and Vinh Nguyen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Davies, Dominic, author.

Rifkind, Candida, author.

Nguyẽ̂n, Vinh, author.

Series:

Crossing lines: transcultural/transnational comics studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Comic books, strips, etc--History and criticism.

Comic books, strips, etc.

Refugees in literature.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (288 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Waterloo, Ontario : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, [2025]

Summary:

"Graphic Refuge is the first in-depth study of comics about refugees, asylum seekers, migrants, and detainees by artists from the Global North and South. Co-written by two leading scholars of nonfiction comics, the book explores graphic narratives about a range of refugee experiences, from war, displacement, and perilous sea crossings to detention camps, resettlement schemes, and second-generation diasporas. Through close readings of work by diverse artists including Joe Sacco, Sarah Glidden, Don Brown, Olivier Kugler, Jasper Rietman, Hamid Sulaiman, Leila Abdelrazzaq, Thi Bui, and Matt Huynh, Graphic Refuge shows how comics challenge dominant representations of the displaced and bring a radical politics of refugee agency and refusal into view. Rather than simply affirming the “humanity” of the refugee, these comics demand that we apprehend the historical construction of categories such as “citizen” and “refugee” through systems of empire, settler colonialism, and racial capitalism. Building on scholarship in critical refugee studies, architecture and infrastructure studies, and postcolonial theory, Davies and Rifkind argue that refugee comics move us through this wider recognition and towards more expansive ideas of refuge as a lived political relationship."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Front Cover

Half-Title Page

Editorial Advisory Board

Title Page

Copyright Page

About the Publisher

Table of Contents

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

Foreword

Introduction

In Plenitudes: Reading Refugee Narratives

Origins and Orientations: Implicated Subjects and Citizen-Viewers

Looking and Framing: Thinking through Refugee Comics

Graphic Refuge: Reading Refugee Refusals

Overview of Chapters

Part 1: The Sea and the Camp

Chapter One: Clandestine Crossings: Refugee Comics at Sea

Introduction: Clandestine Crossings

Ways of Sea-ing on the Mediterranean

Graphic Narrative as Counterforensics: Joe Sacco's "The Unwanted"

Refugee Comics at Sea: PositiveNegatives' "A Perilous Journey" and "An Empty Promise"

Haunting Histories: Jeff Pourquié and Taina Tervonen's Who Profits from Exile?

Conclusion: Learning to Listen

Chapter Two: The Postdocumentary Turn: Refugee Camp Comics

Introduction: Refugee Camps and Refugeeness

Refugee Camps as Neocolonial Spaces

Documenting the Camp: Don Brown's The Unwanted: Stories of the Syrian Refugees

The Postdocumentary Turn: Olivier Kugler's Escaping Wars and Waves

Conclusion: The Paradox of Refusal

Part 2: Visual Technologies

Chapter Three: Unknown Knowns: Refugee Comics and the War on Terror

Introduction: The Johari Window

The Aesthetics of Equipment: Sarah Glidden's Rolling Blackouts

The Theatre of Journalism: Dan's Story

Refugee Refusals: Sam's Story

Conclusion: Unknown Knowns

Chapter Four: Digital Humanitarianism: Interactive Refugee Comics

Introduction: Haptic Experiences and Digital Witnessing

Interactive Refugee Comics: Definitions and Scope

Moving through Ruins: Jasper Rietman's Exodus

Subjective Vision and Intimate Voice: Sea Prayer

Conclusion: "Tech for Good" and Humanitarian Infrastructures.

Part 3: Ruins and Refuge

Chapter Five: Remote Sensing: Refugee Comics in Ruins

Introduction: The World Target

Distant Looking: "Syria's Climate Conflict" and East of Aleppo

The Fabric of War: Hamid Sulaiman's Freedom Hospital

Breaking and Making Home: The Battle for Home and Brothers of the Gun

Conclusion: Remote Sensing

Chapter Six: Diasporic Displacements: Second-Generation Refugee Comics

Introduction: Critical Refugee Studies and Intergenerational Memory

The Diasporic Frames of Leila Abdelrazaq's Baddawi

Housing Memories in Thi Bui's The Best We Could Do

Suburban Refugeetude and the Hyperghetto in Matt Huynh's "Cabramatta"

Conclusion: Refugee Pluralities

Epilogue

Bibliography

Copyright Acknowledgements

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-77112-693-0

1-77112-692-2

OCLC:

1519993244