The Human Rights Graphic Novel: Drawing it Just Right - Paperback

by Pramod K. Nayar (Author)

This book studies human rights discourse across a variety of graphic novels, both fiction and non-fiction, originating in different parts of the world. It demonstrates the emergence of the 'universal' subject of human rights, despite the variations, through a study of these vastly different authors and styles.

Author Biography

Pramod K. Nayar teaches at the Department of English, University of Hyderabad, India. His most recent books include Indian Travel Writing in the Age of Empire, 1830-1940 (2020); Ecoprecarity: Vulnerable Lives in Culture and Literature (Routledge, 2019); Brand Postcolonial: 'Third World' Texts and the Global (2018); Bhopal's Ecological Gothic: Disaster, Precarity and the Biopolitical Uncanny (2017); Human Rights and Literature: Writing Rights (2016); Citizenship and Identity in the Age of Surveillance (2015); Posthumanism (2013); Frantz Fanon (2013); the edited collections, Colonial Education and India, 1781-1945 (Routledge, 2019); Women in Colonial India: Historical Documents and Sources (Routledge, 2014); and Writing Wrongs: The Cultural Constructions of Human Rights in India (Routledge, 2012).