Graphic Narratives of Resistance

This engaging collection of essays provides original perspectives on the medium-specific capabilities of graphic literature to fill historical and representational voids, reconsider past iconographies and address the legacies of marginalisation in a critical light. In their sharp analyses of graphic counternarratives that challenge normative constructs of history, nationhood, race, gender, disability and ecology, the authors offer a valuable contribution not only to comics scholarship but also to the advocacy for justice. – Fabrice Leroy, University of Louisiana at Lafayette

Jennifer Boum Make is an Assistant Professor in the Department of French and Francophone Studies at Georgetown University. Her research focuses on the French Caribbean, the legacy of colonialism, the French Atlantic slave trade, and care studies. Her academic writing has appeared in multiple venues, including Nouvelles Études Francophones, Contemporary French and Francophone Studies, and Francospheres. Her first monograph, Decolonial Care: Reimagining Caregiving in the French Caribbean, is forthcoming. Jennifer is a founding member of the Kwazman Vwa collective.

Charly Verstraet is an Assistant Professor of French Studies in the Department of World Languages and Literatures at American University in Washington, D.C. His research and teaching focus on Caribbean and Indian Ocean studies, ecocriticism, bandes dessinées, soccer and politics, and translation studies. His co-translation of award-winning Martinican writer Patrick Chamoiseau’s Crusoe Footprint (2022) was a finalist for the 2023 French-American Translation Prize. Charly Verstraet is a founding member of the Kwazman Vwa collective.

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