{"title":"The problem with empathy: Justification and appeasement in Hey, Kiddo and Real Friends","authors":"Danielle Sutton","doi":"10.1386/stic_00049_1","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"In this article, Danielle Sutton examines the way in which the propensity towards narrative empathy in texts for children ultimately serves to rationalize abuse in two autobiographical comics for young people: Jarrett Krosoczka’s Hey, Kiddo and Shannon Hale’s Real Friends.\n","PeriodicalId":41167,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Comics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1000,"publicationDate":"2021-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Studies in Comics","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1386/stic_00049_1","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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In this article, Danielle Sutton examines the way in which the propensity towards narrative empathy in texts for children ultimately serves to rationalize abuse in two autobiographical comics for young people: Jarrett Krosoczka’s Hey, Kiddo and Shannon Hale’s Real Friends.