Documenting Lives
Comics, Representation, and Activism Across Cultures
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Beschreibung
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.
Smita Jha is a Professor of English in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Roorkee, India. She has published more than 65 papers in refereed journals of literature by Routledge, SAGE, and OUP, and has six books to her credit. She received the British Columbia fellowship in 2009 and the Indo-Canadian Shastri Fellowship in 2019. She is the recipient of the Adele Mellen Presidential Award for distinguished scholarship by Edwin Mellen Press, New York. Her present areas of research include comics and graphic narratives and Medical Humanities.
Abhilasha Gusain is an Assistant Professor of English in the School of Humanities, Social Sciences and Management, NIT Karnataka, Surathkal, India. She completed her PhD from the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Roorkee. Her research outputs are published in journals like Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, Visual Studies, and 3L. She has presented her work at various international conferences, including the University of Cambridge. She is also the recipient of ‘The Sabin Award for Comics Scholarship’ (2022). She is currently involved in project-based research in comics and graphic narratives.
Amritha R Krishnan is a doctoral research scholar in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at IIT Roorkee and was a Fulbright scholar at Stony Brook University, New York (2023-2024). Her ongoing doctoral work concentrates on chronic illness narratives by women and graphic medicine. The larger fields within which her doctoral research is embedded are medical humanities, gender studies, memory studies and visual studies. She has presented papers at numerous national and international conferences, including “The Child of the Future” Conference hosted by the University of Cambridge. Her research articles have appeared in the Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics.
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.
Explores the transformative power of comics as a critical means to engage with social problems/issues Features a diverse range of global contributors analysing works from the U.S., Brazil, India, and Europe Provides a multidisciplinary analysis to examine the potential of comics in global justice movements and activism
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Smita Jha
Themen in »Documenting Lives«
Life writing in comics Medical humanities Transitional justice and comics Spatiality in comics Reproductive choice comics Superhero healthcare Intersectionality and disability Ocean studies and blue narrative Crip time in comics Gendered trauma and intergenerational trauma