Documenting Trauma in Comics: Traumatic Pasts, Embodied Histories, and Graphic Reportage
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2020), xxi, 345 pp.
Contains 51 illustrations, index
Series: Palgrave Studies in Comics and Graphic Novels
ISBN 978-3-030-37998-8 (ebook); 978-3-030-37997-1 (print)
"Why are so many contemporary comics and graphic narratives written as memoirs or documentaries of traumatic events? Is there a specific relationship between the comics form and the documentation and reportage of trauma? How do the interpretive demands made on comics readers shape their relationships with traumatic events? And how does comics' documentation of traumatic pasts operate across national borders and in different cultural, political, and politicised contexts? The sixteen chapters and three comics included in Documenting Trauma in Comics set out to answer exactly these questions. Drawing on a range of historically and geographically expansive examples, the contributors bring their different perspectives to bear on the tangled and often fraught intersections between trauma studies, comics studies, and theories of documentary practices and processes. The result is a collection that shows how comics is not simply related to trauma, but a generative force that has become central to its remembrance, documentation, and study." (Publisher description)
1 Introduction: Documenting Trauma in Comics / Dominic Davies, 1
SECTION I. DOCUMENTING TRAUMA
2 Hierarchies of Pain: Trauma Tropes Today and Tomorrow / Katalin Orbán, 29
3 Emotional History and Legacies of War in Recent German Comics and Graphic Novels / Alexandra Lloyd, 49
4 The Past That Will Not Die: Trauma, Race, and Zombie Empire in Horror Comics of the 1950s / Michael Goodrum, 69
5 Exploring Trauma and Social Haunting Through Community Comics Creation / Sarah McNicol, 85
6 Comic: "Documenting Trauma" / Nicola Streeten, 103
SECTION II. TRAUMATIC PASTS
7 Traumatic Moments: Retrospective 'Seeing' of Violation, Rupture, and Injury in Three Post-millennial Indian Graphic Narratives / E. Dawson Varughese, 111
8 This Side, That Side: Restoring Memory, Restorying Partition / Payal A. P., Rituparna Sengupta, 131
9 Visual Detention: Reclaiming Human Rights Through Memory in Leila Abdelrazaq's Baddawi / Haya Saud Alfarhan, 153
10 Comic: Crying in the Chapel / Una, 173
SECTION III. EMBODIED HISTORIES
11 Folding, Cutting, Reassembling: Materializing Trauma and Memory in Comics / Ian Hague, 179
12 'To Create Her World Anew': Charlotte Salomon's Graphic Life Narrative / Emma Parker, 199
13 Una's Becoming Unbecoming, Visuality, and Sexual Trauma / Ana Baeza Ruiz, 221
14 Discourses of Trauma and Representation: Motherhood and Mother Tongue in Miriam Katin's Graphic Memoirs / Eszter Szép, 243
15 Comic: First Person Third / Bruce Mutard, 263
SECTION IV. GRAPHIC REPORTAGE
16 Comics Telling Refugee Stories / Nina Mickwitz, 277
17 Migrant Detention Comics and the Aesthetic Technologies of Compassion / Candida Rifkind, 297
18 Comics as Memoir and Documentary: A Case Study of Sarah Glidden / Johannes C. P. Schmid, 317
SECTION I. DOCUMENTING TRAUMA
2 Hierarchies of Pain: Trauma Tropes Today and Tomorrow / Katalin Orbán, 29
3 Emotional History and Legacies of War in Recent German Comics and Graphic Novels / Alexandra Lloyd, 49
4 The Past That Will Not Die: Trauma, Race, and Zombie Empire in Horror Comics of the 1950s / Michael Goodrum, 69
5 Exploring Trauma and Social Haunting Through Community Comics Creation / Sarah McNicol, 85
6 Comic: "Documenting Trauma" / Nicola Streeten, 103
SECTION II. TRAUMATIC PASTS
7 Traumatic Moments: Retrospective 'Seeing' of Violation, Rupture, and Injury in Three Post-millennial Indian Graphic Narratives / E. Dawson Varughese, 111
8 This Side, That Side: Restoring Memory, Restorying Partition / Payal A. P., Rituparna Sengupta, 131
9 Visual Detention: Reclaiming Human Rights Through Memory in Leila Abdelrazaq's Baddawi / Haya Saud Alfarhan, 153
10 Comic: Crying in the Chapel / Una, 173
SECTION III. EMBODIED HISTORIES
11 Folding, Cutting, Reassembling: Materializing Trauma and Memory in Comics / Ian Hague, 179
12 'To Create Her World Anew': Charlotte Salomon's Graphic Life Narrative / Emma Parker, 199
13 Una's Becoming Unbecoming, Visuality, and Sexual Trauma / Ana Baeza Ruiz, 221
14 Discourses of Trauma and Representation: Motherhood and Mother Tongue in Miriam Katin's Graphic Memoirs / Eszter Szép, 243
15 Comic: First Person Third / Bruce Mutard, 263
SECTION IV. GRAPHIC REPORTAGE
16 Comics Telling Refugee Stories / Nina Mickwitz, 277
17 Migrant Detention Comics and the Aesthetic Technologies of Compassion / Candida Rifkind, 297
18 Comics as Memoir and Documentary: A Case Study of Sarah Glidden / Johannes C. P. Schmid, 317
