Friday, June 3rd, 15.30 – 18.30, at Università di Verona, Room 1.3
Abstract:
In her fascinating Graphic Novel "Exit Wounds" winner of Eisner Award for Best New Graphic Novel 2008, Rutu Modan depicts an imagined community: One in which a suicide bomber caught in the scene is not being lynched by the crowds but rather gets treated by a nurse of the opposite nationality. Here Horrorism turns into a non-voilant act. In my paper I would like to study Modan's creations as a path for re-thinking and criticizing the justifiability of violence.
