Growing Up Graphic : The Comics of Children in Crisis EPUB
by Halsall Alison Halsall
Part of the Studies in Comics and Cartoons series
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In Growing Up Graphic, Alison Halsall considers graphic texts for young readers to interrogate how they help children develop new ideas about social justice and become potential agents of change. With a focus on comics that depict difficult experiences affecting young people, Halsall explores the complexities of queer graphic memoirs, narratives of belonging, depictions of illness and disability, and explorations of Indigenous experiences. She discusses, among others, Child Soldier by Jessica Dee Humphreys and Michel Chikwanine, War Brothers by Sharon E. McKay, Baddawi by Leila Abdelrazaq, Matt Huynh's interactive adaptation of Nam Le's The Boat, and David Alexander Robertson's 7 Generations. These examples contest images of childhood victimization, passivity, and helplessness, instead presenting young people as social actors who attempt to make sense of the challenges that affect them. In considering comics for children and about children, Growing Up Graphic centers a previously underexplored vein of graphic narratives and argues that these texts offer important insights into the interests and capabilities of children as readers.
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- Format:EPUB
- Pages:264 pages
- Publisher:Ohio State University Press
- Publication Date:13/10/2023
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- ISBN:9780814283097
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:EPUB
- Pages:264 pages
- Publisher:Ohio State University Press
- Publication Date:13/10/2023
- Category:
- ISBN:9780814283097
