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German Graphic Narratives and Trauma

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Language:EnglishPublisher:Camden House (NY)ISBN-13:9781640142022ISBN-10:1640142029UPC:9781640142022Book Category:Literary Criticism, PsychologyBook Subcategory:European, Comics & Graphic Novels, Trauma PsychologyBook Topic:GermanSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.56 inchesWeight:1.0516Product ID:SCCFXZF6JX
This volume explores the representation of political, racial, sexual, and environmental trauma in German-language graphic narratives, which has thus far received little scholarly attention.

In recent decades, as graphic novels have exploded in popularity and have increasingly been engaged with by scholarship, there has been a marked increase in comics that deal with traumatic experiences. These experiences arise variously from warfare, genocide, terrorism, racism, sexual violence, domestic violence, illness, disability, migration, natural disasters, or climate-change, among other causes. Indeed, scholars including Hillary Chute and Gillian Whitlock have argued that graphic narratives are particularly well-suited to portraying traumatic experiences through the lens of individual memories.

This edited volume builds on the emergent body of work on the representation of trauma in graphic narratives, but focuses exclusively on German-language graphic narratives, whose exploration of trauma has so far received little scholarly attention. Essays dealing with theoretical and conceptual concerns are joined by analyses of individual creators of graphic narratives, including Olivia Vieweg and Volker Reiche. In addition, there are transcribed conversations among the contributors to the graphic story compilation But I Live, Miriam Libicki, Gilad Seliktar, and Barbara Yelin, and between Birgit Weyhe, creator of the graphic narratives Madgermanes and Rude Girl, and the Germanist Priscilla Layne, who is the model for the main character in the latter book. A final essay looks back further with a critical appraisal of the poet Rolf-Dieter Brinkmann's sampling of comics in his late 1960s Popliteratur works.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Camden House (NY)ISBN-13:9781640142022ISBN-10:1640142029UPC:9781640142022Book Category:Literary Criticism, PsychologyBook Subcategory:European, Comics & Graphic Novels, Trauma PsychologyBook Topic:GermanSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.56 inchesWeight:1.0516Product ID:SCCFXZF6JX
Krimmer, Elisabeth: - ELISABETH KRIMMER is Professor of German at the University of California, Davis.Burdock, Maureen: - MAUREEN BURDOCK is a graphic storyteller, writer, and illustrator with dual master's degrees from the California School of the Arts and a PhD in Cultural Studies from the University of California, Davis.Bademsoy, Aylin: - Aylin Bademsoy is a PhD candidate in the German Department at UC Davis.
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Publisher: Camden House (NY)

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