María Porras Sánchez
Biographic Data
| ID | 3965235 |
|---|---|
| NAME | María Porras Sánchez |
| GIVEN NAMES | María Porras |
| FAMILY NAME | Sánchez |
| SIGNATURE | SÁNCHEZ M P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidad Complutense de Madrid |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4001-8670 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Heroic Vulnerability and the Vietnamese Refugee Experience in Thi Bui’s The Best We Could Do
Autographics illustrating refugee and migrant experiences are frequently published, proof of the power of comics to engage with representations of trauma and vulnerability. Thi Bui’s graphic memoir The Best We Could Do tells the story of the author and her family as “boat people”, before and after migrating from Việt Nam to the US in the so-called second “wave” of refugees (1978–1980). If, as Judith Butler argues, vulnerable lives are more grieva…
Myth and Environmentalism
Myth and Environmentalism
A tongue tells a thousand truths
This study attempts to explore one of the less-studied works in Paul Bowles-Mohamed Mrabet's intellectual and translational collaborations, Chocolate Creams and Dollars, a semi-autobiographical novel illustrated by Philip Taaffe's photographs and found objects. The story presents Driss, a young Moroccan entangled within the shifts and twists of encounter with Westerners in a Northern Moroccan coastal city. By virtue of the three different interve…
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A tongue tells a thousand truths
This study attempts to explore one of the less-studied works in Paul Bowles-Mohamed Mrabet's intellectual and translational collaborations, Chocolate Creams and Dollars, a semi-autobiographical novel illustrated by Philip Taaffe's photographs and found objects. The story presents Driss, a young Moroccan entangled within the shifts and twists of encounter with Westerners in a Northern Moroccan coastal city. By virtue of the three different interve…
Myth and Environmentalism
Myth and Environmentalism
Heroic Vulnerability and the Vietnamese Refugee Experience in Thi Bui’s The Best We Could Do
Autographics illustrating refugee and migrant experiences are frequently published, proof of the power of comics to engage with representations of trauma and vulnerability. Thi Bui’s graphic memoir The Best We Could Do tells the story of the author and her family as “boat people”, before and after migrating from Việt Nam to the US in the so-called second “wave” of refugees (1978–1980). If, as Judith Butler argues, vulnerable lives are more grieva…
Literature (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Advertising (1 work) · Aesthetics (1 work) · African history and culture studies (1 work) · Asian American and Pacific Histories (1 work)