Comics, trauma, and the new art of war / Harriet E.H. Earle.

Conflict and trauma remain among the most prevalent themes in film and literature. Comics has never avoided such narratives, and comics artists are writing them in ways that are both different from and complementary to literature and film. Harriet E.H. Earle brings together two distinct areas of res...

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Main Author: Earle, Harriet E. H. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2017]
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505 0 |a Introduction -- Representing the traumatic -- Rituals, mourning, and grief -- Trauma invading sleep -- The search for identity -- Moving in four dimensions -- Postmodernism vs. comics and trauma -- Excursus -- Conclusion. 
520 |a Conflict and trauma remain among the most prevalent themes in film and literature. Comics has never avoided such narratives, and comics artists are writing them in ways that are both different from and complementary to literature and film. Harriet E.H. Earle brings together two distinct areas of research - trauma studies and comics studies - to provide a new interpretation of a long-standing theme. Focusing on representations of conflict in American comics after the Vietnam War, Earle claims that the comics form is uniquely able to show traumatic experience by representing events as viscerally as possible. Using texts from across the form and placing mainstream superhero comics alongside alternative and art comics, Earle suggests that comics are the ideal artistic representation of trauma. Because comics bridge the gap between the visual and the written, they represent such complicated narratives as loss and trauma in unique ways, particularly through the manipulation of time and experience. Comics can fold time and confront traumatic events, be they personal or shared, through a myriad of both literary and visual devices. As a result, comics can represent trauma in ways that are unavailable to other narrative and artistic forms. With themes such as dreams and mourning, Earle concentrates on trauma in American comics after the Vietnam War. These works include Alissa Torres's American Widow, Doug Murray's The 'Nam, and Art Spiegelman's much-lauded Maus. Earle proves that comics open up new avenues to explore personal and public trauma in extraordinary, necessary ways. 
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