Documenting trauma in comics : traumatic pasts, embodied histories, and graphic reportage /

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Other Authors: Davies, Dominic, 1988- (Editor), Rifkind, Candida, 1972- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2020
Series:Palgrave studies in comics and graphic novels.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Documenting Trauma: Comics and the Politics of Memory; Dominic DaviesSection 1: Tropes of Trauma1. 'Real News From My Brain': Trauma Tropes Today and Tomorrow; Katalin Orbán2. Materialising Trauma in Comics; Ian Hague3. Accessing Trauma in Art Spiegelman's Breakdowns: Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@&*!; Laura Findlay4. The Past That Will Not Die: Zombies & Haiti in Horror Comics of the 1950s; Michael GoodrumComic: Billy, Me and You
  • And Me; Nicola StreetenSection 2: Embodied Histories5. Charlotte Salomon's Life? or Theatre? as Graphic Life-Narrative; Emma Parker6. Exploring the Body in Alyona Kamyshevskaya's Moi Seks; Didar Kul-Mukhammed7. Becoming Unbecoming and the Visibility of Trauma; Ana Baeza Ruis and Louisa Parker (Una)8. Discourses of Trauma and Representation in Miriam Katin's Comics; Eszter SzépComic: 'Subjects of Trauma'; UnaSection 3: Graphic Reportage9. Comics as Refugee Stories; Nina Mickwitz10. Migrant Detention Comics and the Aesthetic Technologies of Compassion; Candida Rifkind11. 'Where do Memory and Truth Meet?' Contrasting Memoir and Documentary in the Comics of Sarah Glidden; Johannes Schmid12. Exploring Trauma and Social Haunting Through Community Comics Creation; Sarah McNicolComic: 'First Person Third'; Bruce MutardSection 4: Traumatic Pasts13. Restoring Memory, Restorying Partition; Payal Anil Padmanabhan and Rituparna Sengupta14. Visual Detention: Reclaiming Human Rights through Memory in Leila Abdelrazaq's Baddawi; Haya Alfarhan15. Emotional History and Legacies of War in Recent German Comics and Graphic Novels; Alexandra Lloyd16. Traumatic Moments: Retrospective 'Seeing' of Violation, Rupture and Injury in Three Post-millennial Indian Graphic Narratives; E. Dawson VarugheseAfterword; Hillary Chute.