The end of the twentieth century and the turn of the new millennium witnessed an unprecedented flood of traumatic narratives and testimonies of suffering in literature and the arts. Graphic novels, free at last from long decades of stern censorship, helped explore these topics by developing a new subgenre: the trauma graphic novel. This book seeks to analyze this trend through the consideration of five influential graphic novels in English. Works by Paul Hornschemeier, Joe Sacco, Art Spiegelman, Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons will be considered as illustrative examples of the representation of individual, collective, and political traumas. This book provides a link between the contemporary criticism of Trauma Studies and the increasingly important world of comic books and graphic novels.
| ISBN: | 9781138238886 |
| Publication date: | 25th January 2017 |
| Author: | Andrés Romero-Jódar |
| Publisher: | Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 190 pages |
| Series: | Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies |
| Genres: |
Graphic novel and comic books: guides and reviews Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers Media studies American / British style comic books and graphic novels Graphic novel and comic books: guides and reviews Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 Cultural studies |