Representations of Violence and Exile in Leila Abdelrazaq’ Baddawi

  1. María Porras Sánchez 1
  1. 1 Universidad Complutense de Madrid
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    Universidad Complutense de Madrid

    Madrid, España

    ROR 02p0gd045

Book:
Narratives of violence
  1. Teresa Iribarren (coord.)
  2. Canadell, Roger (coord.)
  3. Josep-Anton Fernàndez (coord.)

Publisher: Ca’ Foscari

ISBN: 978-88-6969-460-8

Year of publication: 2021

Pages: 143-160

Type: Book chapter

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Abstract

Leila Abdelrazaq’s graphic memoir Baddawi (2015), an example of postmemory and testimonial writing, reconstructs her father’s childhood and teenage memoriesin the eponymous refugee camp in Lebanon. This chapter analyzes the graphic representations of violence and exile in Abdelrazaq’s work and the possibilities of illustratingboth through a non-naturalistic approach. Through visual and thematic analysis, thischapter attempts to answer whether Abdelrazaq is finally able to meet the ethical challenge of representing violence and Palestinian refugee identity in a comic suitable forall audiences.

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