Tag Archives: Elisabeth El Refaie

Capturing Alternate Realities: Visual Metaphors and Patient Perspectives in Graphic Narratives on Mental Illness

Venkatesan, S. & Saji, S. (2020) Capturing alternate realities: visual metaphors and patient perspectives in graphic narratives on mental illness, Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, DOI: 10.1080/21504857.2020.1809482 ABSTRACT: The diverse affordances of the medium of comics like spatio-temporality and visual rhetorical devices enable artists/patients who suffer from mental illnesses to approximate their experiential reality via graphic narratives. The graphic… Read More »

Drawing the Mind: Aesthetics of Representing Mental Illness in Select Graphic Memoirs

Sathyaraj, V., & Saji, S. (2019). Drawing the mind: Aesthetics of representing mental illness in select graphic memoirs, Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1177/1363459319846930 ABSTRACT: Representation of psychological experiences necessitates a creative use of means of expression. In the field of graphic medicine, autobiographical narratives… Read More »