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Documenting Trauma in Comics

Traumatic Pasts, Embodied Histories, and Graphic Reportage

Herausgegeben: Davies, Dominic; Rifkind, Candida

Beschreibung

Why are so many contemporary comics and graphic narratives written as memoirs or documentaries of traumatic events? Is there a specific relationship between the comics form and the documentation and reportage of trauma? How do the interpretive demands made on comics readers shape their relationships with traumatic events? And how does comics' documentation of traumatic pasts operate across national borders and in different cultural, political, and politicised contexts?

The sixteen chapters and three comics included in Documenting Trauma in Comics set out to answer exactly these questions. Drawing on a range of historically and geographically expansive examples, the contributors bring their different perspectives to bear on the tangled and often fraught intersections between trauma studies, comics studies, and theories of documentary practices and processes. The result is a collection that shows how comics is not simply related to trauma, but a generativeforce that hasbecome central to its remembrance, documentation, and study.

Autor

Dominic Davies is a Lecturer in English at City, University of London. He holds a DPhil and British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship from the University of Oxford. He is the author and editor of several books, articles, and chapters, and his most recent monograph is Urban Comics: Infrastructure & the Global City in Contemporary Graphic Narratives (2019).   Candida Rifkind is a Professor in the Department of English, University of Winnipeg, Canada. In addition to over a dozen journal articles and book chapters in comics studies, she co-edited Canadian Graphic: Picturing Life Narratives (2016) and is co-editor of the Wilfrid Laurier UP book series Crossing Lines: Transcultural/Transnational Comics Studies.  Contributors Haya Alfarhan, King's College London, UK Ana Baeza Ruiz, University of Leeds, UK Hillary Chute, Northeastern University, USA  Michael Goodrum, Canterbury Christ Church University, UK Ian Hague, London College of Communication, UK Alexandra Lloyd, University of Oxford, UK Sarah McNicol, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK Nina Mickwitz London College of Communication, UK Bruce Mutard, Independent Artist, Australia Katalin Orbán, Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary Emma Parker, University of Leeds, UK Johannes C. P. Schmid, University of Hamburg, Germany A. P. Payal, University of Delhi, India Rituparna Sengupta, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India Nicola Streeten, London College of Communication, UK Eszter Szép, Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary E. Dawson Varughese, Snr Fellow, Manipal Centre for Humanities, Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE), Manipal, India     

Produktdetails

• Palgrave Studies in Comics and Graphic Novels
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Springer International Publishing / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-3-030-38000-7
• 1st edition 2020
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Mai 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 210mm x 148mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9783030380007
• ISBN-10: 3030380009
• Artikelnr.: 61625822

Rezensionen

"Life writing scholars will appreciate Documenting Trauma in Comics for its expansive theorization of multimodal narratives of trauma beyond the generic, discursive, and affective expectations ... . Documenting Trauma in Comics ... has a great deal to offer to scholars of life writing beyond comics studies. The attention paid by contributors to the generic affordances ... raised by trauma art resonates with the concerns of those interested in auto/biography. Such readers would themselves be rewarded by attention to this volume." (Janine Utell, Biography, Vol. 44 (4), 2021)