Documenting Trauma in Comics
Traumatic Pasts, Embodied Histories, and Graphic Reportage
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“Documenting Trauma in Comics: Traumatic Pasts, Embodied Histories, and Graphic Reportage brings together a diverse group of scholars to offer a new perspective on representations of trauma in graphic narratives. Using primary source comics from a broad geographic and historical scope, this collection focuses on creating relationships between texts, demonstrating not only the global interest in trauma narratives but also the myriad representational techniques that comics can employ. As such, the coordinates by which this work is steered are academically rigorous, contemporary, and highly topical.”
--Professor Harriet EH Earle, Sheffield Hallam University
“A necessary collection, both for its crucial global scope and for its contribution to how we think about trauma and images.”
--Professor Hillary Chute, Northeastern University
Why are so many contemporary comics and graphic narratives written as memoirs or documentaries of traumatic events? Is there a specific relationship between the comics form and the documentation and reportage of trauma? How do the interpretive demands made on comics readers shape their relationships with traumatic events? And how does comics’ documentation of traumatic pasts operate across national borders and in different cultural, political, and politicised contexts?
The sixteen chapters and three comics included in Documenting Trauma in Comics set out to answer exactly these questions. Drawing on a range of historically and geographically expansive examples, the contributors bring their different perspectives to bear on the tangled and often fraught intersections between trauma studies, comics studies, and theories of documentary practices and processes. The result is a collection that shows how comics is not simply related to trauma, but a generative force that has become central to its remembrance, documentation, and study.
Dominic Davies is a Lecturer in the Department of English at City, University of London.
Candida Rifkind is a Professor in the Department of English, University of Winnipeg, Canada.Why are so many contemporary comics and graphic narratives written as memoirs or documentaries of traumatic events? Is there a specific relationship between the comics form and the documentation and reportage of trauma? How do the interpretive demands made on comics readers shape their relationships with traumatic events? And how does comics’ documentation of traumatic pasts operate across national borders and in different cultural, political, and politicised contexts?
The sixteen chapters and three comics included in Documenting Trauma in Comics set out to answer exactly these questions. Drawing on a range of historically and geographically expansive examples, the contributors bring their different perspectives to bear on the tangled and often fraught intersections between trauma studies, comics studies, and theories of documentary practices and processes. The result is a collection that shows how comics is not simply related to trauma, but a generativeforce that has become central to its remembrance, documentation, and study.
Pairs comics criticism with a series of comics themselves, not only as artistic works, but as visual reflections on and engagement with the thematic concerns of the book Emphasizes the connections between the sub-fields of trauma, embodiment and reportage, first consolidating, and then intervening into and opening up topics that are of increasing critical concern in comics scholarship Incorporates a global engagement with comics production, including not only Anglophone and Francophone comics, but some published originally in languages such as German, Russian and Hebrew
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Dominic Davies
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“Life writing scholars will appreciate Documenting Trauma in Comics for its expansive theorization of multimodal narratives of trauma beyond the generic, discursive, and affective expectations … . Documenting Trauma in Comics … has a great deal to offer to scholars of life writing beyond comics studies. The attention paid by contributors to the generic affordances … raised by trauma art resonates with the concerns of those interested in auto/biography. Such readers would themselves be rewarded by attention to this volume.” (Janine Utell, Biography, Vol. 44 (4), 2021)
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"Documenting Trauma in Comics: Traumatic Pasts, Embodied Histories, and Graphic Reportage brings together a diverse group of scholars to offer a new perspective on representations of trauma in graphic narratives. Using primary source comics from a broad geographic and historical scope, this collection focuses on creating relationships between texts, demonstrating not only the global interest in trauma narratives but also the myriad representational techniques that comics can employ. As such, the coordinates by which this work is steered are academically rigorous, contemporary, and highly topical."
---Professor Harriet EH Earle, Sheffield Hallam University
“A necessary collection, both for its crucial global scope and for its contribution to how we think about trauma and images.”
--Professor Hillary Chute, Northeastern University
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