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Comics and Identity
Growing up as a Christian Palestinian American, Marguerite Dabaie portrays herself beset with multiple expectations for girls in her family's culture. Gazing upward with a determined air, her many-armed figure wields drawing tools, boldly counterpointing the words and arms of family members holding tools of domestic labor in this final page of her autobiographical story "Domestic Goddess." As she struggles to forge her identity as an artist, Dabaie faces her challenges with humor. |