· Becoming Unbecoming is written with sensitivity, compassion, and insight. Una’s greatest strength is in joining the dots between the personal and the political: she makes links between systemic issues and individual experiences in a way that is both touchingly human and crucial to a political understanding of violence against women. Graphic Novel by Una. Arsenal Pulp Press, September ISBN $; pp. Reviewed by Edmund Zagorin. Becoming Unbecoming is a nonfiction graphic novel that describes the UK-based artist Una’s coming of age during the Yorkshire Ripper’s terror against women. Set in the s and early s, Becoming Unbecoming takes us through Una’s own encounters with sexual . In a way, this is two books: one the tale of Una and a memorial to those thirteen women who were killed by the Yorkshire Ripper and the other a didactic warning. Yet Becoming Unbecoming is a profound plea to what is still a mostly patriarchal society that can tend to minimize threats to women. It is heartbreaking that this plea is still bltadwin.ruted Reading Time: 3 mins.
Delicate in construction yet uncompromising in message, Becoming Unbecoming is an astonishing testament to the potency of visual metaphor. Una's autobiographical Becoming Unbecoming is set against a very recognisable s backdrop. It's a time of widespread industrial action, a climate of domestic fear centring on the IRA, and persistent power cuts. Through image and text Becoming Unbecoming explores what it means to grow up in a culture where male violence goes unpunished and unquestioned. With the benefit of hindsight Una explores her experience, wonders if anything has really changed and challenges a global culture that demands that the victims of violence pay its cost. Una. Culture Sexual violence Gender Sexual assault. An eerily familiar figure appears at the end of Becoming Unbecoming, a graphic novel by the Yorkshire, U.K.-based artist known only as Una. With.
Becoming Unbecoming is a memoir-style graphic novel that delineates Una’s upbringing and experiences of sexual abuse in the s against a backdrop of the Yorkshire Ripper’s crimes. The text’s form is integral to its content: the voice of a rape survivor is rarely heard in dominant literature and media, and by removing the narrative from. Becoming Unbecoming is written with sensitivity, compassion, and insight. Una’s greatest strength is in joining the dots between the personal and the political: she makes links between systemic issues and individual experiences in a way that is both touchingly human and crucial to a political understanding of violence against women. Becoming Unbecoming is an astounding graphic novel memoir by Una. The artist powerfully explores her experience of childhood sexual assault and shares her astute observations around the culture of toxic masculinity and slut shaming. It's beautifully done.
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