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Disaster Drawn: Visual Witness, Comics, and Documentary Form

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By (author): Hillary L. Chute

In hard-hitting accounts of Auschwitz, Bosnia, Palestine, and Hiroshimas Ground Zero, comics display a stunning capacity to bear witness to trauma. Investigating how hand-drawn comics has come of age as a serious medium for engaging history, Disaster Drawn explores the ways graphic narratives by diverse artists, including Jacques Callot, Francisco Goya, Keiji Nakazawa, Art Spiegelman, and Joe Sacco, document the disasters of war.

Hillary L. Chute traces how comics inherited graphic print traditions and innovations from the seventeenth century and later, pointing out that at every turn new forms of visual-verbal representation have arisen in response to the turmoil of war. Modern nonfiction comics emerged from the shattering experience of World War II, developing in the 1970s with Art Spiegelmans first Maus story about his immigrant familys survival of Nazi death camps and with Hiroshima survivor Keiji Nakazawas inaugural work of atomic bomb manga, the comic book Ore Wa Mita (I Saw It)a title that alludes to Goyas famous Disasters of War etchings.

Chute explains how the form of comicsits collection of frameslends itself to historical narrative. By interlacing multiple temporalities over the space of the page or panel, comics can place pressure on conventional notions of causality. Aggregating and accumulating frames of information, comics calls attention to itself as evidence. Disaster Drawn demonstrates why, even in the era of photography and film, people understand hand-drawn images to be among the most powerful forms of historical witness.

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Product Details
  • Weight: 771g
  • Dimensions: 156 x 235mm
  • Publication Date: 12 Jan 2016
  • Publisher: Harvard University Press
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780674504516

About Hillary L. Chute

Hillary L. Chute is Professor of English at Northeastern University.

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