Comics memory : archives and styles / Maaheen Ahmed, Benoît Crucifix, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ahmed, Maaheen.

Crucifix, Benoît.

Series:

Palgrave studies in comics and graphic novels

Palgrave Studies in Comics and Graphic Novels

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Collective memory.

Comic books, strips, etc--Social aspects.

Comic books, strips, etc.

Comic books, strips, etc--History.

History.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xix, 290 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cham : Palgrave Macmillan 2018.

Summary:

Despite the boom in scholarship in both Comics Studies and Memory Studies, the two fields rarely interact?especially with issues beyond the representation of traumatic and autobiographical memories in comics. With a focus on the roles played by styles and archives?in their physical and metaphorical manifestations?this edited volume offers an original intervention, highlighting several novel ways of thinking about comics and memory as comics memory. Bringing together scholars as well as cultural actors, the contributions combine studies on European and North American comics and offer a representative overview of the main comics genres and forms, including superheroes, Westerns, newspaper comics, diary comics, comics reportage and alternative comics. In considering the many manifestations of memory in comics as well as the functioning and influence of institutions, public and private practices, the book exemplifies new possibilities for understanding the complex entanglements of memory and comics.

ISBN:

9783319917450

3319917455

OCLC:

1050757919