Palestine
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Palestine
Palestine
The landmark work of comics journalism by Joe Sacco, in a new hardcover edition with a new afterword by Israeli journalist Amira Hass and an introduction by Palestinian American author and critic Edward W. Said.
Joe Sacco's breakthrough work of graphic journalism—a now-established genre almost single-handedly invented by Sacco—won the American Book Award upon its initial release in 1996. It has remained a perennial, essential work for understanding the Palestinian-Israeli conflict in the Middle East.
This new hardcover edition includes a new afterword by Israeli journalist Amira Hass and also features Palestinian academic and critic Edward W. Said's timeless 2001 introduction to the work.
Based on several years of research and an extended visit to the West Bank and Gaza Strip in the early 1990s, where he conducted over 100 interviews with Palestinians and Jews, Palestine was the first major comics work of political and historical nonfiction by Sacco. His name has since become synonymous with this graphic form of New Journalism.
Like Safe Area Gorazde, Palestine has been favourably compared to Art Spiegelman's Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus for its ability to brilliantly navigate socially and politically sensitive subject matter through the immersive lens of the comic book medium. Sacco has often been called the first comic book journalist, and he is certainly the best.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9798875000003
Publisher: Fantagraphics
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 03 September 2024
Country: United States
Imprint: Fantagraphics
Contributors:
- Introduction by Edward W. Said
- Afterword by Amira Hass
Audience: General / adult, Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 3.0mm
Width: 18.0mm
Height: 27.0mm
Weight: 510g
Pages: 300
About the Author
Joe Sacco lives in Portland, Oregon. He is the author of many acclaimed graphic novels, including Palestine, Safe Area Gorazde, But I Like It, Notes from a Defeatist, The Fixer, War's End, and Footnotes in Gaza. Edward W. Said was University Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Royal Society of Literature and of Kings College Cambridge, his celebrated works include Orientalism, The End of the Peace Process, Power, Politics and Culture, and the memoir Out of Place. He is also the editor, with Christopher Hitchens, of Blaming the Victims, published by Verso. He died in September 2003. Amira Hass is an Israeli journalist and author, known for her columns in the daily newspaper Haaretz covering Palestinian affairs in Gaza and the West Bank, where she has lived for almost thirty years.
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