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The Postcolonial Graphic Novel and the Image of Violence in Palestine of Joe Sacco’s Palestine

Eyong-Tiku Eyong-Ewubhe


International Journal of Language, Literature and Culture (IJLLC), Vol-5,Issue-4, July - August 2025, Pages 12-23, 10.22161/ijllc.5.4.2

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Article Info: Received: 30 May 2025, Received in revised form: 27 Jun 2025, Accepted: 03 Jul 2025, Available online: 07 Jul 2025

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The postcolonial image within the graphic novel continues to be a field where most critics have not delved in to due to a considerate lack of literary productions. This paper therefore tries to look at the ways in which the postcolonial graphic novel portrays violence. It is against this backdrop that Joe Sacco’s novel Palestine depicts violence. The paper argues that Sacco’s novel merges both language and image to expose the characteristics of the oppressive postcolonial boundaries that lead to violence. We will attempt to illustrate various instances in the text that justify that the postcolonial graphic novel is a glorious presentation of the inglorious confrontation of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict that emerged from the Balfour Declaration of 1917, heightened with the 1948 El Nakba ‘the catastrophe’ and transcended with the construction of Jewish settlements that make Palestine a postcolonial unstable zone. Thus, this paper concludes by noting that the postcolonial graphic novel presents ekphrasis of violence through the content of its images. The analysis of this study is guided by New Historicism and postcolonial theory.

Palestine, Postcolonial, image, graphic novel, New Historicism, Violence.

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