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“A terrible beauty is born”: Interrogating Joe Sacco’s Palestine and Footnotes in Gaza (1.3 Mehta)

The paper was published in Issue 3 Volume 1 of LLIDS. The paper focalizes Joe Sacco’s seminal contributions to graphic journalism, Palestine (1993) and its thematic continuation Footnotes in Gaza (2009), through the lenses of the violent and the visual, to interrogate their interrelatedness. ‘What does the graphic mode do for a sensitive and traumatic geopolitical issue?’ is the question that undergirds the argument. Additionally, due to the vast temporal gap between the two graphic novels, a comparative framework is constructed to excavate the efficacy, similarities, and divergences in Sacco’s evolving comic aesthetic.

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