Representation and memory in graphic novels / by Golnar Nabizadeh.

By:

Nabizadeh, Golnar [Author.]

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TextLanguage: English Series: Memory studies: global constellationsPublication details: London : Routledge, 2020.Description: ix, 198 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:

9781317066095 (pbk.)

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DDC classification:

741.5 NAB/R

Contents:

Introduction: Comics, memory, and the visual archive -- Migrant memories in Henry Yoshitaka Kiyama's The Four Immigrants manga, and The Arrival by Shaun Tan -- Racism and cultural after-lives: American born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang and Pat Grant's Blue -- Narrating trauma in Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis -- Memories of illness in epileptic by David B. and Stitches by David Small -- Multimodal memories: the photographer: into war-torn Afghanistan with Doctors Without Borders by Guibert et al and Ari Folman's Waltz with Bashir -- Comics online: memories from the exclusion zone in At work inside our detention centres: A Guard's Story by Wallman et al, and Villawood by Safdar Ahmed.

Summary: "This book analyses the relationship between comics and cultural memory. By focusing on a range of landmark comics from the 20th and 21st centuries, the discussion draws attention to the ongoing role of visual culture in framing testimony, particularly in relation to underprivileged subjects such as migrants and refugees, individuals dealing with war and oppressive regimes, and individuals living with particular health conditions."--

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	Text Book	Central Library, IIT Bhubaneswar	Central Library, IIT Bhubaneswar			741.5 NAB/R (Browse shelf(Opens below))					Available			TB12224

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

"This book analyses the relationship between comics and cultural memory. By focusing on a range of landmark comics from the 20th and 21st centuries, the discussion draws attention to the ongoing role of visual culture in framing testimony, particularly in relation to underprivileged subjects such as migrants and refugees, individuals dealing with war and oppressive regimes, and individuals living with particular health conditions."--

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