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Decolonial chronotopes and palimpsestic heterotopias in Safdar Ahmed's Still Alive.

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Titel: Decolonial chronotopes and palimpsestic heterotopias in Safdar Ahmed's Still Alive.
Autoren: Michael, Olga1 olgamichael86@gmail.com
Quelle: Journal of Graphic Novels & Comics. Oct2025, Vol. 16 Issue 5, p897-918. 22p.
Schlagwörter: *RIGHT of asylum, *COLONIES, *COMIC books, strips, etc., *VIOLENCE
People: AHMED, Safdar
Abstract: Refugee and asylum-seeker graphic storytelling constitutes a core segment of contemporary graphic life narrative. The texts belonging in this category articulate border-crossing experiences of subjects who become othered within Eurocentric media, legal, and other discourses. In expressing such life stories, these narratives often, but not always, counter injurious formations of border-crossing subjects, and they foreground the violence that becomes embedded in the biopolitical and necropolitical control of border spaces within and outside Western states. Locations of asylum detention that have been described as 'Black Sites' in the context of Australian border control constitute injurious weapons in the service of the State's dehumanisation of asylum seekers who are stranded therein, but continuously resist their violence. Focusing on Still Alive: Graphic Reportage from Australia's Immigration Detention System (2022) by Safdar Ahmed, in this article, I propose an interpretation of Australia's Black Sites through the lens of decolonial theory, the heterotopia, the palimpsest, and the chronotope. I argue that this approach foregrounds contemporary forms of (neo-)colonial violence and injustice against asylum seekers as linked to longer histories of colonialism, as well as to the human and spatial binary divisions and hierarchies that have emerged in the context of modernity/coloniality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Datenbank: Academic Search Index
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Abstract:Refugee and asylum-seeker graphic storytelling constitutes a core segment of contemporary graphic life narrative. The texts belonging in this category articulate border-crossing experiences of subjects who become othered within Eurocentric media, legal, and other discourses. In expressing such life stories, these narratives often, but not always, counter injurious formations of border-crossing subjects, and they foreground the violence that becomes embedded in the biopolitical and necropolitical control of border spaces within and outside Western states. Locations of asylum detention that have been described as 'Black Sites' in the context of Australian border control constitute injurious weapons in the service of the State's dehumanisation of asylum seekers who are stranded therein, but continuously resist their violence. Focusing on Still Alive: Graphic Reportage from Australia's Immigration Detention System (2022) by Safdar Ahmed, in this article, I propose an interpretation of Australia's Black Sites through the lens of decolonial theory, the heterotopia, the palimpsest, and the chronotope. I argue that this approach foregrounds contemporary forms of (neo-)colonial violence and injustice against asylum seekers as linked to longer histories of colonialism, as well as to the human and spatial binary divisions and hierarchies that have emerged in the context of modernity/coloniality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
ISSN:21504857
DOI:10.1080/21504857.2025.2450390