The Brutality of Normalcy: Schooling in "My Friend Dahmer"

Autor/in	Saul, Roger
Titel	The Brutality of Normalcy: Schooling in "My Friend Dahmer"
Quelle	In: Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 31 (2023) 4, S.633-645 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1468-1366
DOI	10.1080/14681366.2021.1938187
Schlagwörter	Cartoons; Novels; Adolescents; Educational Environment; Peer Relationship; Social Isolation; Violence; Social Bias; Behavior Standards; Interpersonal Relationship; Bullying + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Zeichentrickfilm; Novel; Roman; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Lernumgebung; Pädagogische Umwelt; Schulumwelt; Peer-Beziehungen; Soziale Isolation; Gewalt; Interpersonal relation; Interpersonal relations; Interpersonelle Beziehung; Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung; Mobbing
Abstract	This article considers "My Friend Dahmer" as a pedagogical document of educational critique. A graphic novel memoir, "My Friend Dahmer" depicts the teenage life of Jeffrey Dahmer in the years before he gained notoriety as a serial killer. One of the memoir's central tensions is that at Dahmer's school, even a serial-killer-in-the-making struggles to be seen, in fact fails at it, instead becoming an unexceptional feature of its landscape. Focusing on three factors -- invisibility, exclusion, and alienation -- the article interrogates how normalised schooling structures can represent a series of hidden brutalities that are far more common, pervasive, and socially consequential than the exceptional, sensational, and thus more easily dismissible notion of brutality that Dahmer himself embodies. It suggests that "My Friend Dahmer" contributes to our cultural understandings of education to the extent that it helps to locate these hidden brutalities and render them visible in graphic novel form. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01