Stitching Out a Life in Graphic Memoir | Los Angeles Review of Books

With "Baddawi," Leila Abdelrazaq joins women cartoonists engaged in life writing. Not just Satrapi, but Alison Bechdel, Lynda Barry, and Phoebe Gloeckner.

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Baddawi and the Visual Politics of Memory: A Conversation with Leila Abdelrazaq - PM Press

By Bryant Louis Scott The Comics Grid Abstract This interview with Palestinian American comics artist Leila Abdelrazaq explores her acclaimed graphic novel Baddawi (2015) and her broader creative practice as a visual storyteller of diasporic and intergenerational memory. The conversation examines how Abdelrazaq’s minimalist drawing style and fragmentary narration work to represent inherited memory and […]

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Stitching Out a Life in Graphic Memoir - PM Press

With “Baddawi,” Leila Abdelrazaq joins women cartoonists engaged in life writing. Not just Satrapi, but Alison Bechdel, Lynda Barry, and Phoebe Gloeckner. By Alex Mangles LA Review of Books June 8th, 2015 LEILA ABDELRAZAQ, a young Palestinian-American cartoonist, has released her debut graphic narrative Baddawi, the story of her father Ahmad, a Palestinian refugee, brought up […]

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