Disaster Drawn : : Visual Witness, Comics, and Documentary Form / / Hillary L. Chute.

In hard-hitting accounts of Auschwitz, Bosnia, Palestine, and Hiroshima’s Ground Zero, comics have shown a stunning capacity to bear witness to trauma. Hillary Chute explores the ways graphic narratives by diverse artists, including Jacques Callot, Francisco Goya, Keiji Nakazawa, Art Spiegelman, and...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
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Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2016]
©2016
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (336 p.) :; 35 color illustrations, 31 halftones
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Other title:Frontmatter --
Contents --
A Note on the Figures --
Introduction. Seeing New --
1. Histories of Visual Witness --
2. Time, Space, and Picture Writing in Modern Comics --
3. I Saw It and the Work of Atomic Bomb Manga --
4. Maus’s Archival Images and the Postwar Comics Field --
5. History and the Visible in Joe Sacco --
Coda. New Locations, New Forms --
Notes --
Acknowledgments --
Index
Summary:In hard-hitting accounts of Auschwitz, Bosnia, Palestine, and Hiroshima’s Ground Zero, comics have shown a stunning capacity to bear witness to trauma. Hillary Chute explores the ways graphic narratives by diverse artists, including Jacques Callot, Francisco Goya, Keiji Nakazawa, Art Spiegelman, and Joe Sacco, document the disasters of war.
Format:Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
ISBN:9780674495647
9783110638585
DOI:10.4159/9780674495647?locatt=mode:legacy
Access:restricted access
Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: Hillary L. Chute.