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Abina And The Important Men Analysis
In the making of Abina and the Important Men, the graphic novel’s author Getz and Clarke, make it abundantly clear that through the making of this work his only aim is to present the history and all the history, from all points of view and in it’s rawest form. While this is quite hard to do due to cultural and “temple” mentality, through the use of innovative methods, diverse inspection of peoples and moral views of history he attempts his best at retelling Abina’s story.
While it is quite hard to read in between the lines, many historians use a method of “reading against the grain” in order to pull out underlying cultural, political and economical motivations embedded within people’s words and actions. This allowed for a reevaluation of Abina’s

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