A gripping look at gender violence, "Becoming Unbecoming" is the story of year-old Una, a girl who loves playing guitar and finds herself on the receiving end of violence several times over, and feels that she is to blame. Una tells her story via art, short blocks of text, newspaper articles, and statistics about violence toward women/5. · 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 standard forms—i.e. the long-form literary Estimated Reading Time: 6 mins. · 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.
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. Becoming Unbecoming. by. Una (Goodreads Author) · Rating details · 3, ratings · reviews. A devastating personal account of gender violence told in comic book form, set against the backdrop of the s Yorkshire Ripper man-hunt. It's and Una is Other kids are into punk or ska, but Una is learning to play "Mull of. 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.’ – Street Noise Books. 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. 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 needed.
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