Cultures of War in Graphic Novels

Violence, Trauma, and Memory
Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-0-8135-9095-0
Verlag: Rutgers University Press

Buch, Englisch, 230 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 197 mm x 233 mm, Gewicht: 349 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Prorokova, Tatiana

Tal, Nimrod

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction
- Tatiana Prorokova and Nimrod Tal 
- Part I: Representations
- Chapter 1: “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
- Chapter 2: Graphic Narrative and the War on Terror 
- Kenton Worcester
- Chapter 3: What Is War in the Bosnian Graphic Novel 
- Emir Pasanovic
- Part II: Non-Combatants’ Experiences
- Chapter 4: “The Sky Is Darkened by Gods”: Spirituality, Strength, and Violence in Gene Luen Yang’s Boxers and Saints
- Harriet E.H. Earle
- Chapter 5: Unseen Scars: Recalling Traumatic Moments in Individuals with PTSD in War Brothers 
- James Kelley
- Chapter 6: Nat Turner, Slave Revolts, and Child-Killing in US Graphic Novels 
- Joe Lockard
- Chapter 7: Sinne Fianna Fáil: Women, Irish Rebellions, and the Graphic Novels of Gerry Hunt
- Christina M. Knopf
- Chapter 8: “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
- Chapter 9: The Malvinas War in Argentine Memory: Graphic Representations of Defeat and Nationalism, 1982-2015
- Silvia G. Kurlat Ares
- Chapter 10: The Haunting Power of War: Remembering the Rwandan Genocide in 99 Days
- Tatiana Prorokova
- Chapter 11: Blogging in Times of War: The July 2006 War in Lebanon, Mazen Kerbaj Imaging the Unimaginable
- Yasmine Nachabe Taan  
- Notes on Contributors
- Index

Über Autor(innen)

Tatiana Prorokova is a doctoral candidate in Americans Studies at Philipps University of Marburg, Germany, and an academic editor at Pod Academy, United Kingdom.

Nimrod Tal is a lecturer at Kibbutzim College in Tel Aviv, Israel. He is the author of The American Civil War in British Culture: Representations and Responses, 1870s to the Present.