Comics and Catharsis (eBook)

Exploring Graphic Narratives of Trauma and Healing

Jordan Tronsgard (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: EPUB

2025 | EPUB Single
294 Seiten
University Press of Mississippi (Verlag)
978-1-4968-5895-5 (ISBN)

Infos

An exploration of why comics are so good at confronting the bad

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Contributions by Kelly Baron, Angie Chau, Jennifer Nagtegaal, Lee Okan, Diana Pifano, Russell Samolsky, Kay Sohini, Jordan Tronsgard, Anastasia Ulanowicz, and Aanchal Vij

Comics and Catharsis: Exploring Graphic Narratives of Trauma and Healing explores the idea that trauma and healing hold an imbalance in many forms of literature—especially in the world of comics. Whether it be war-based, national, physical, or sexual trauma, this volume looks at a wide variety of trauma and the psychological pain and devastation that arise during and—crucially for the question of trauma narratives—following the events as the psychological (and often physical) wounds are processed.

Essayists in the collection engage with questions of how comics process trauma through depictions and receptions. Viewing trauma through the lens of comics such as Maus, Persepolis, and Fun Home, as well as works by comics writers who are little known or unknown outside their communities, contributors analyze how trauma is used in artistic style, writing, and overall storytelling. Together, the essays in Comics and Catharsis show how people who have suffered trauma often flock to these works to find a way to acknowledge and process their own suffering.

Autor

Jordan Tronsgard is professor of Hispanic studies and chair of the Department of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at Bishop’s University.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 21.8.2025
• Zusatzinfo: 52 b&w illustrations
• Verlagsort: Jackson
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Comic / Humor / Manga ► Comic
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Notfallmedizin
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: 30 años de oscuridad • A Chinese Life • Alison Bechdel • animated cartoon documentary • Becoming Unbecoming • Censorship • comix sequential art drawing • courage to be me • Democracy • Domestic violence • Francisco Franco Dictatorship • Fun Home • gender-based • generational • Ghost Stories • Historical • intimate partner • La herencia del coronel • Lighter Than My Shadow • Maus Art Spiegelman • Mental Health • mental physical verbal emotional sexual child elder abuse • Munnu A Boy from Kashmir • Persepolis • post-traumatic stress disorder PTSD • Spanish Civil War • speak • Stress • Superman Red Son • Take It As A Compliment • The Best We Could Do • traumatic memory • Ukrainian Notebooks • Watchman • witness testimony
• ISBN-10: 1-4968-5895-6 / 1496858956
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4968-5895-5 / 9781496858955