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Provides a map of current approaches to comics and their engagement with historical representation. The first section of the book explores the existence, shape, and influence of comics as a medium; the second section concerns the question of trauma; the final section delves into ways in which comics add to the mythology of the US.

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Provides a map of current approaches to comics and their engagement with historical representation. The first section of the book explores the existence, shape, and influence of comics as a medium; the second section concerns the question of trauma; the final section delves into ways in which comics add to the mythology of the US.
Autorenporträt
Dorian L. Alexander is a PhD candidate in English at the University of Washington. They write comics on a variety of topics for The Nib. Michael Goodrum is senior lecturer in modern history at Canterbury Christ Church University. He is author of Superheroes and American Self Image: From War to Watergate. With Philip Smith, he is coauthor of Printing Terror: American Horror Comics as Cold War Commentary and Critique and coeditor of "Firefly" Revisited: Essays on Joss Whedon's Classic Series. Philip Smith is associate chair of liberal arts and professor of English at Savannah College of Art and Design. He is author of Reading Art Spiegelman and Shakespeare in Singapore: Performance, Education, and Culture. He is coeditor of The Struggle for Understanding: Elie Wiesel's Literary Works and Gender and the Superhero Narrative, the latter published by University Press of Mississippi.