Drawing the Revolution: The Practice and Politics of Collaboration in the Graphic Novel Lissa
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2018-11
Authors
Nye, Coleman
Sherine, Hamdy
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Fembot Collective
Abstract
Motivated by the potentials of comics to convey complex, yet accessible anthropological insights on global health and political transformation, the authors crafted the collaborative work of graphic “ethnofiction” Lissa: A Story about Medical Promise, Friendship, and Revolution. Lissa chronicles the unlikely friendship of two young women living in Cairo—one Egyptian, one American—who are navigating difficult health circumstances at home and revolutionary unrest in the streets. In this excerpt and discussion of the collaborative process of crafting Lissa, we illustrate how we attended to the broader epistemological, aesthetic, and ethical fields within which the project took shape by working collaboratively with Egyptian revolutionaries on the story and by employing different visual and narrative techniques throughout the book to cite their artistic, academic, and activist work.
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22 pages
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Nye, C. & Hamdy, S. (2018). Drawing the Revolution: The Practice and Politics of Collaboration in the Graphic Novel Lissa. Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology, No. 14. https://doi.org/10.5399/uo/ada.2018.14.5