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

Contributor(s): Publisher: New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2018]Description: pages cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780813590967 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780813590950 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 741.5/9 23
LOC classification:
  • PN6714 .C85 2018
Contents:
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.

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.

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