Drawing the Past. Volume 2, Comics and the Historical Imagination in the World. / edited by Dorian L. Alexander, Michael Goodrum, and Philip Smith.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Alexander, Dorian L., editor.

Goodrum, Michael D., 1983- editor.

Smith, Phil, 1975- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Comic books, strips, etc--United States--History and criticism.

Comic books, strips, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (329 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Jackson, Mississippi : University Press of Mississippi, [2022]

Summary:

The conclusion of a worldwide study that investigates the role comics play in historical memory.

Contents:

11. The World as It Was/Could Have Been? The Depiction and (Re)Interpretation of Medieval History in Jour J

12. Perverse Victoriana in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

13. Japan's Joan of Arc: Deterritorializing the Maid of Orleans through Manga

14. "An All-Purpose Symbol": V for Vendetta and the History of a Floating Signifier Called Guy

Contributors

6. Re-presenting the Past, Reinventing Comics: The Reader/Viewer as Witness in Joe Sacco's The Great War

7. "Monstrez-vous en Tutu": Obsessional Identity and Interpersonal Histories in the Post-traumatic Bandes Dessinees of Nawel Louerrad

8. Zikai Feng's Chinese Cartoons during the War of Resistance against Japan

9. "At the Going Down of the Sun": Vampires, Comics, and the World Wars

MYTHIC HISTORIES

10. "Rogues, Devilry, and Strange Wonders": Re-presenting Early Modernity in Neil Gaiman's Marvel 1602

Cover

DRAWING THE PAST, VOLUME 2

Title

Copyright

CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

Introduction

HISTORY AND FORM

1. Beyond Paper Walls

2. A Tarnished Bronze Age? Divergent Comic Book Receptions of Homeric Greece

3. "The Gutters of History": Geopolitical Pasts and Imperial Presents in Recent Graphic Nonfiction

4. Back to the (Socialist) Future: History, Time Travel, and East German Education in Mosaik von Hannes Hegen, 1958-74

5. Why Hair Matters: Cultural Impact and Appreciation in Viking and Modern Societies

HISTORICAL TRAUMA

Notes:

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Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Alexander, Dorian L. Drawing the Past, Volume 2

ISBN:

9781496837240

149683724X

9781496837264

1496837266

OCLC:

1289370838