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

Cultures of war in graphic novels : violence, trauma, and memory / edited by Tatiana Prorokova and Nimrod Tal. - pages cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I. Representations. "A clash of arms to be eternally remembered": war, chivalry, and the Hundred Years War in Le Trône d'Argile and Crécy / Iain A. MacInnes ; Graphic narrative and the war on terror / Kent Worcester ; War in the Bosnian graphic novel / Emir Pasanovic. Part II. Noncombatants' experiences. "The sky is darkened by gods": spirituality, strength, and violence in Gene Luen Yang's Boxers and Saints / Harriet E.H. Earle ; Unseen scars: recalling traumatic moments in individuals with PTSD in War Brothers / James Kelley ; Nat Turner, slave revolts, and child-killing in U.S. graphic novels / Joe Lockard ; Sinne Fianna Fáil: women, Irish rebellions, and the graphic novels of Gerry Hunt / Christina M. Knopf ; "The children internalize the meaning of the occupation": growing up under Israeli occupation and a culture of resistance in Joe Sacco's Palestine / Peter C. Valenti. Part III. Memories. The Malvinas War in Argentine memory: graphic representations of defeat and nationalism, 1982-2015 / Silvia G. Kurlat Ares ; The haunting power of war: remembering the Rwandan genocide in 99 days / Tatiana Prorokova ; Blogging in times of war: the July 2006 war in Lebanon and Mazen Kerbaj imaging the unimaginable / Yasmine Nachabe Taan.

9780813590967 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780813590950 (pbk. : alk. paper)

2017054291


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

PN6714 / .C85 2018

741.5/9

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