Witnessing and Empty Empathy: A Comparison Between Joe Sacco’s Palestine and Jérôme Ruillier’s The Strange

This article compares two graphic novels dealing with the subject of modern border crises, namely Joe Sacco’s Palestine and Jérôme Ruillier’s The Strange, by considering empathy creation in visual media. Ruillier’s The Strange, whose stated goal is to elicit empathy by presenting the viewer with as...

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Main Author: Ionescu Ambrosie, Stefan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Bucharest 2019-12-01
Series:Intersections
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Online Access:https://intersections-journal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/2.-SA-article.pdf