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Reckoning with the Suffering of Distant Others: Understanding Ethnic Conflict through Literary Journalism, Comics Journalism, and Documentary /

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Reckoning with the Suffering of Distant Others: Understanding Ethnic Conflict through Literary Journalism, Comics Journalism, and Documentary // Mohammed Faiz Elahi.
作者:	Elahi, Mohammed Faiz,
面頁冊數:	1 electronic resource (105 pages)
附註:	Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 86-03.
Contained By:	Masters Abstracts International86-03.
標題:	Journalism. -
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ISBN:	9798384203780

Reckoning with the Suffering of Distant Others: Understanding Ethnic Conflict through Literary Journalism, Comics Journalism, and Documentary /
Elahi, Mohammed Faiz,

Reckoning with the Suffering of Distant Others: Understanding Ethnic Conflict through Literary Journalism, Comics Journalism, and Documentary /Mohammed Faiz Elahi. - 1 electronic resource (105 pages)

Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 86-03.

This thesis focuses on the vaguely concerned, international citizen's response to reports of distant ethnic conflict. Specifically, these conflicts are complex, historically determined, and state-sanctioned situations where one ethnic community is Othered. The nominally concerned person in a distant country who observes the Others caught in conflict is defined as a spectator due to the theatrical nature of the act. The spectator engages in multimedia spectatorship via newspapers, television, and the internet with reports that come in a range of media; however, the breakneck nature of reportage causes them to skim over the institutionalized destruction of entire communities. Conventional reportage truncates the history of the conflict to the latest event because they lack the breadth to elucidate the disproportionate loss of Othering conflict. Conversely, modes of narrative non-fiction such as literary journalism, comics journalism, and documentary can guide interested spectators to comprehend the Other's lived reality by including and contextualizing witness testimony. Such modes can also delineate the history, instigators, and ideologies behind the conflict. I analyze Philip Gourevitch's literary journalism text We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families (1998); Joe Sacco's comics journalism work Footnotesin Gaza (2009); and the two-episode BBC Two documentary series India: The Modi Question(2023). These texts represent, respectively, the Rwandan genocide of 1994, the occupation of Palestine by Israel, and the escalating Hindu-Muslim tensions in India. It is the spectator's uncomfortable cognitive and affective experience of reckoning with the structural intricacies and the human devastation of Othering conflict that I study here. By analyzing each text for the specific affordance of its medium, I illustrate how an interested spectator gains a human (lived reality, acute fear, trauma) and a structural (historical, political, and ideological determinants) understanding of a distant conflict.

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520 $a This thesis focuses on the vaguely concerned, international citizen's response to reports of distant ethnic conflict. Specifically, these conflicts are complex, historically determined, and state-sanctioned situations where one ethnic community is Othered. The nominally concerned person in a distant country who observes the Others caught in conflict is defined as a spectator due to the theatrical nature of the act. The spectator engages in multimedia spectatorship via newspapers, television, and the internet with reports that come in a range of media; however, the breakneck nature of reportage causes them to skim over the institutionalized destruction of entire communities. Conventional reportage truncates the history of the conflict to the latest event because they lack the breadth to elucidate the disproportionate loss of Othering conflict. Conversely, modes of narrative non-fiction such as literary journalism, comics journalism, and documentary can guide interested spectators to comprehend the Other's lived reality by including and contextualizing witness testimony. Such modes can also delineate the history, instigators, and ideologies behind the conflict. I analyze Philip Gourevitch's literary journalism text We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families (1998); Joe Sacco's comics journalism work Footnotesin Gaza (2009); and the two-episode BBC Two documentary series India: The Modi Question(2023). These texts represent, respectively, the Rwandan genocide of 1994, the occupation of Palestine by Israel, and the escalating Hindu-Muslim tensions in India. It is the spectator's uncomfortable cognitive and affective experience of reckoning with the structural intricacies and the human devastation of Othering conflict that I study here. By analyzing each text for the specific affordance of its medium, I illustrate how an interested spectator gains a human (lived reality, acute fear, trauma) and a structural (historical, political, and ideological determinants) understanding of a distant conflict.
520 $a Cette these se concentre sur la reaction du citoyen international, vaguement inquiet, aux rapports sur les conflits ethniques lointains. Plus precisement, ces conflits sont des situations complexes, determinees par l'histoire et sanctionnees par l'Etat, dans lesquelles une communaute ethnique est prise pour cible par les Autres. La personne nominalement concernee dans un pays lointain qui observe les Autres pris dans un conflit est definie comme un spectateur en raison de la nature theatrale de l'acte. Le spectateur s'engage dans un spectacle multimedia par le biais des journaux, de la television et de l'internet, avec des reportages qui se presentent sous diverses formes ; cependant, la nature rapide des reportages les amene a ne pas voir la destruction institutionnalisee de communautes entieres. Les reportages conventionnels tronquent l'histoire du conflit a l'evenement le plus recent parce qu'ils n'ont pas l'ampleur necessaire pour elucider la perte disproportionnee du conflit de l'Autre. A l'inverse, les modes de narration non fictionnels tels que le journalisme litteraire, le journalisme de bande dessinee et le documentaire peuvent aider les spectateurs interesses a comprendre la realite vecue par l'Autre en incluant et en contextualisant les temoignages. Ces modes peuvent egalement delimiter l'histoire, les instigateurs et les ideologies a l'origine du conflit. J'analyse le texte de journalisme litteraire de Philip Gourevitch intitule We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families (1998) ; l'oeuvre de journalisme de bande dessinee de Joe Sacco intitulee Footnotes in Gaza (2009) ; et la serie documentaire en deux episodes de BBC Two intitulee India : The Modi Question(2023). Ces textes representent respectivement le genocide rwandais de 1994, l'occupation de la Palestine par Israel et l'escalade des tensions entre hindous et musulmans en Inde. C'est l'experience cognitive et affective inconfortable du spectateur, qui doit faire face aux complexites structurelles et a la devastation humaine du conflit de l'Autre, que j'etudie ici. En analysant chaque texte en fonction des possibilites specifiques de son support, j'illustre comment un spectateur interesse acquiert une comprehension humaine (realite vecue, peur aigue, traumatisme) et structurelle (determinants historiques, politiques et ideologiques) d'un conflit lointain.
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