Palestine by Joe Sacco.
An amazingly captivating memoir of a journalist in Palestine, this book confronts core issues of identity and alienation. Sacco has rendered a visual treat of his travels through Palestine, some of the time with Israeli friends. In the early 1990s, Joe Sacco spent a brief two months in various parts of the West Bank and other parts of the Occupied Territories. He did not decide, however, to simply provide feature articles to periodicals as a way to share his reporting. Instead, Sacco set out to draw a comic-style series of eyewitness accounts of the lives of people in this explosive part of the world. This 285-page volume is a wonderful way to study visual rhetoric: Where is the intersection of text and visuals? How do they play off each other? An important contribution to critical literacy on so many levels. Provocative, honest, and engaging, this is a must for every literary classroom. By Natosi, high school/college English instructor.