Cultures of war in graphic novels : violence, trauma, and memory

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Cultures of war in graphic novels : violence, trauma, and memory

Title remainder

violence, trauma, and memory

Statement of responsibility

edited by Tatiana Prorokova and Nimrod Tal

Contributor

• Prorokova, Tatiana
• Tal, Nimrod, 1980-

Editor

• Prorokova, Tatiana
• Tal, Nimrod, 1980-

Subject

• Collective memory in literature
• Graphic novels -- History and criticism
• Psychic trauma in literature
• Violence in literature
• War in literature

Language

eng

Summary

Cultures of War in Graphic Novels examines the representation of small-scale and often less acknowledged conflicts from around the world and throughout history. The contributors look at an array of graphic novels about conflicts such as the Boxer Rebellion (1899-1901), the Irish struggle for national independence (1916-1998), the Falkland War (1982), the Bosnian War (1992-1995), the Rwandan genocide (1994), the Israel-Lebanon War (2006), and the War on Terror (2001-). The book explores the multi-layered relation between the graphic novel as a popular medium and war as a pivotal recurring experience in human history. The focus on largely overlooked small-scale conflicts contributes not only to advance our understanding of graphic novels about war and the cultural aspects of war as reflected in graphic novels, but also our sense of the early twenty-first century, in which popular media and limited conflicts have become closely interrelated.--

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Literary form

non fiction

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bibliography