Introduction: Comics, Memory, and the Visual Archive 1. Migrant Memories in Henry Yoshitaka Kiyama’s The Four Immigrants Manga, and The Arrival by Shaun Tan 2. Racism and Cultural After-Lives: American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang and Pat Grant’s Blue 3. Narrating Trauma in Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis 4. Memories of Illness in Epileptic by David B. and Stitches by David Small 5. Multimodal Memories: The Photographer: Into War-Torn Afghanistan with Doctors Without Borders by Guibert et al and Ari Folman’s Waltz with Bashir 6. Comics Online: Memories from the Exclusion Zone in ‘At Work Inside our Detention Centres: A Guard’s Story’ by Wallman et al, and ‘Villawood’ by Safdar Ahmed’ Afterword
Biography
Golnar Nabizadeh is Lecturer in Comics Studies at the University of Dundee where she teaches on the MLitt in Comics and Graphic Novels, as well as undergraduate modules in English and Humanities. Her research interests are in graphic justice, critical theory, trauma and memory studies. She has published on the work of Alison Bechdel, Marjane Satrapi, and Shaun Tan, visual adaptation, picturebooks, and comics and literary justice.
