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Title Cultures of war in graphic novels : violence, trauma, and memory / edited by Tatiana Prorokova and Nimrod Tal
Published New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2018]

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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
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.-- Provided by Publisher
Analysis Bosnian War
Boxer Rebellion
Falkland War
Irish independence
Israel-Lebanon War
Rwandan genocide
War on Terror
comics
culture
graphic novel
history
small-scale conflicts
war
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Collective memory in literature.
Psychic trauma in literature.
Violence in literature.
War in literature.
Graphic novels -- History and criticism
ART -- Popular Culture.
Collective memory in literature
Graphic novels
Psychic trauma in literature
Violence in literature
War in literature
Graphic Novel
Krieg Motiv
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Prorokova, Tatiana, editor.
Tal, Nimrod, 1980- editor.
LC no. 2017054291
ISBN 9780813590998
081359099X
9780813590974
0813590973