Drawing on the Past ? Graphic Narrative Documentary: Graphic Narrative Documentary Volume 41 (CV ? North American Studies (CHUP))

Birte Wege

ISBN 10: 3593510219 / ISBN 13: 9783593510217

Published by Campus Verlag, 2020

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Drawing on the Past ? Graphic Narrative Documentary: Graphic Narrative Documentary Volume 41 (CV ? North American Studies (CHUP))
• Publisher: Campus Verlag
• Publication Date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3593510219
• ISBN 13: 9783593510217
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Long disregarded as trivial entertainment, comics have gained increased scholarly and mainstream attention over the past three decades. More and more frequently, they are the medium of choice for artists who choose to criticize mainstream political narratives. Drawing on the Past looks closely at four twenty-first-century graphic narratives—Emmanuel Guibert’s The Photographer, Ho Che Anderson’s King: A Comics Biography, Art Spiegelman’s In The Shadow of No Towers, and Joe Sacco’s Footnotes in Gaza—to explore the medium’s potential as political documentary. Birte Wege examines how these four works draw parallels between past and present crises; how they use photography in their pages, either through direct depiction or indirect reference; and how the artists complicate notions of authenticity, objectivity, and reality in their own work. Drawing on the Past brings a distinctly literary perspective to larger debates about the role of visual images in our culture, particularly the myriad guises comics and graphic novels can assume in portraying past and present political conflict.
 

About the Author

Birte Wege is assistant professor of American literature at the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies at Freie Universität Berlin.