Overview

First runner-up for the 2019 Ray and Pat Browne Award for the Best Edited Collection in Popular and American Culture 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.

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Author:   Tatiana Prorokova ,  Nimrod Tal ,  Tatiana Prorokova ,  Nimrod Tal
Publisher:   Rutgers University Press
Imprint:   Rutgers University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.349kg
ISBN:  

9780813590950

ISBN 10:   0813590957
Pages:   237
Publication Date:   06 July 2018
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction Tatiana Prorokova and Nimrod Tal      Part I: Representations Chapter 1: “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                     Chapter 2: Graphic Narrative and the War on Terror  Kenton Worcester                                     Chapter 3: What Is War in the Bosnian Graphic Novel  Emir Pasanovic             Part II: Non-Combatants’ Experiences Chapter 4: “The Sky Is Darkened by Gods”: Spirituality, Strength, and Violence in Gene Luen Yang’s Boxers and Saints                         Harriet E.H. Earle                             Chapter 5: Unseen Scars: Recalling Traumatic Moments in Individuals with PTSD in War Brothers  James Kelley                                 Chapter 6: Nat Turner, Slave Revolts, and Child-Killing in US Graphic Novels  Joe Lockard     Chapter 7: Sinne Fianna Fáil: Women, Irish Rebellions, and the Graphic Novels of Gerry Hunt Christina M. Knopf Chapter 8: “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 Chapter 9: The Malvinas War in Argentine Memory: Graphic Representations of Defeat and Nationalism, 1982-2015 Silvia G. Kurlat Ares Chapter 10: The Haunting Power of War: Remembering the Rwandan Genocide in 99 Days Tatiana Prorokova Chapter 11: Blogging in Times of War: The July 2006 War in Lebanon, Mazen Kerbaj Imaging the Unimaginable Yasmine Nachabe Taan      Notes on Contributors Index  

Reviews

What makes this collection exciting and groundbreaking is its eagerness to look beyond familiar works devoted to familiar conflicts. The result is a refreshingly non-USA-centric survey of the graphic novel medium and its engagement with trauma and collective memory. --Steven Trout coeditor of War+Ink: New Perspectives on Ernest Hemingway's Early Life and Writings

Spotlight of Cultures of War in Graphic Novels on The War and Media

What makes this collection exciting and groundbreaking is its eagerness to look beyond familiar works devoted to familiar conflicts. The result is a refreshingly non-USA-centric survey of the graphic novel medium and its engagement with trauma and collective memory. --Steven Trout coeditor of War+Ink: New Perspectives on Ernest Hemingway's Early Life and Writings Chronicle of Higher Education weekly book list, by Nina C. Ayoub--Chronicle of Higher Education Spotlight of Cultures of War in Graphic Novels on The War and Media--The War and Media

Chronicle of Higher Education weekly book list, by Nina C. Ayoub

Author Information

TATIANA PROROKOVA holds a PhD in American Studies from the University of Marburg, Germany, and is an academic editor at Pod Academy, United Kingdom. NIMROD TAL is a lecturer at Kibbutzim College in Tel Aviv, Israel. He is the author of The American Civil War in British Culture: Representations and Responses, 1870s to the Present.   

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