Apocalypse and Sensibility: The Role of Sympathy in Jeff Lemire’s Sweet Tooth

In Jeff Lemire’s graphic narrative Sweet Tooth, the reader is faced with a world in dissolution. The cause for world-wide disaster, a deadly disease, is a traditional element of dystopian fiction. What is more unusual about Sweet Tooth is that its protagonist seems particularly ill-suited to face th...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: André Cabral de Almeida Cardoso
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Association Française d'Etudes Américaines 2017-09-01
Series:Transatlantica : Revue d'Études Américaines
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/transatlantica/8364