With powerful illustrations by Emily Carroll, Laurie Halse Anderson's Speak comes alive for new audiences and fans of the classic novel. Through her work on an art project, she is finally able to face what really happened that night: she was raped by an upperclassman, a guy who still attends Merryweather and is still a threat to her. She is friendless - an outcast - because she busted an end-of-summer party by calling the cops. Now nobody will talk to her, let alone listen to her.
"Speak up for yourself - we want to know what you have to say." From the first moment of her freshman year at Merryweather High, Melinda knows this is a big fat lie, part of the nonsense of high school. I conclude by considering the ethical ramifications of employing aesthetic distancing in stories about sexual assault.The critically acclaimed, award-winning modern classic Speak is now a stunning graphic novel. Specifically, I analyse the jaggedness of the artistic style, vague pronoun usage and language, power relations, intertextuality, and the symbol of the mouth. I suggest that Andersen and the illustrator Emily Carroll take a middle ground approach, by which I refer to the fact that although aesthetic distancing is used, the narrative still presents threatening text and images to demonstrate that healing from sexual violence is an on-going process. By drawing on art and visual design theory and principles, this article will analyse where Speak: The Graphic Novel (2018) uses aesthetic distancing, but more importantly, where it is rejected as a mode of representation. Eastman calls ‘controlled danger’ where the narrative becomes ‘comfortably exciting rather than overwhelming’ (75). Aesthetic distancing includes the use of both visual and verbal techniques to provide a sense of what Jacqueline F. Book Summary: A teenage girl has difficulties in school and home after keeping her sexual assault a.
In stories about sexual assault, it is common for authors and illustrators to employ aesthetic distancing in children’s and YA literature.
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