by Victoria James The Black Schooner: Rebellion on the Amistad, by David Lester and Marcus Rediker with an Afterword by Paul Buhle, is a striking graphic retelling of a significant moment of collective resistance in the history of the transatlantic slave trade. Adapted from Rediker’s historical study The Amistad Rebellion: An Atlantic Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom, this graphic novel brings the 1839 uprising into vivid focus, restoring the fifty‑three enslaved African people onboard La Amistad to the center of their own narrative. By situating the graphic novel within a “history-from-below” (p. 117, Afterword) framework, the authors successfully challenge the… Read More
This Week in Graphic Medicine (10/27/17)
Special Note: This is the last week that these posts will be cross-posted on The Graphic Librarian and on Graphic Medicine. Beginning next week, you will need to check, follow, or subscribe to Graphic Medicine for these updates! I will periodically post other content here in the future – perhaps a post about that next week… Also Special Note: The Pathographics conference is happening in Berlin this weekend! You’ll find tweets here from the opening night and the full first day of the event. The rest of the conference will be featured in next week’s post – and I’ll try to get… Read More