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Muslim Comics and Warscape Witnessing

Muslim Comics and Warscape Witnessing

Santesso, Esra Mirze

Hardcover

Series: Studies in Comics and Cartoons

Literary CriticismIslam

ISBN10: 0814215416
ISBN13: 9780814215418
Publisher: Ohio St Univ Pr
Published: Sep 12 2023
Pages: 220
Weight: 1.08
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Recent decades have seen an unprecedented number of comics by and about Muslim people enter the global market. Now, Muslim Comics and Warscape Witnessing offers the first major study of these works. Esra Mirze Santesso assesses Muslim comics to illustrate the multifaceted nature of seeing and representing daily lives within and outside of the homeland. Focusing on contemporary graphic narratives that are primarily but not exclusively from the Middle East-from blockbusters like Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis to more local efforts such as Leila Abdelrazaq's Baddawi-Santesso explores why the graphic form has become a popular and useful medium for articulating Muslim subjectivities. Further, she shows how Muslim comics bear witness to a range of faith-based positions that complicate discussions of global ummah or community, contest monolithic depictions of Muslims, and question the Islamist valorization of the shaheed, the martyr figure regarded as the ideal religious witness. By presenting varied depictions of everyday lives of Muslims navigating violence and militarization, this book reveals the connections between religious rituals and existence in warscapes and invites us to more deeply consider the nature of witnessing itself.

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