Comics, Trauma, and the New Art of War, Hardcover by Earle, Harriet E. H., Li...

by Harriet E. H. Earle

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Comics, Trauma, and the New Art of War, Hardcover by Earle, Harriet E. H., ISBN 1496812468, ISBN-13 9781496812469, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US "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. In Comics, Trauma, and the New Art of War, 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 post-Vietnam War American comics, 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 concentrate

• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Year: 2017
• Binding: Hardcover
• ISBN: 9781496812469
• Condition: Fine

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