Disaster Drawn: Visual Witness, Comics, and Documentary Form

by Hillary L. Chute

Overview

In hard-hitting accounts of Auschwitz, Bosnia, Palestine, and Hiroshima’s Ground Zero, comics have shown a stunning capacity to bear witness to trauma. Hillary Chute 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780674495661
Publisher:	Harvard University Press
Publication date:	01/12/2016
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	26 MB
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Table of Contents

Cover Title Copyright Dedication Contents Introduction | Seeing New War Comics Framing Documentary Comics, Photography, Film Drawing History Materializing Witness, Reference, Presence The Gutter Chapter 1. Histories of Visual Witness Chapter 2. Time, Space, and Picture Writing in Modern Comics Chapter 3. I Saw It and the Work of Atomic Bomb Manga The Mark versus the Bomb as Documentarian: I Saw It Plasticity and Corporeality Chapter 4. Maus’s Archival Images and the Postwar Comics Field “Maus”: Comics, War, Witness Picturing the Oxymoron of Life in a Death Camp Maus: Creating a Testimonial Archive Coffins/Archives Chapter 5. History and the Visible in Joe Sacco Comics and Ethics Decoding, Density, and “Double-Vision” Style and Suffering Comics and the Rhythm of Knowing “Events Are Continuous”: Footnotes in Gaza and the Counterarchive of Comics Coda | New Locations, New Forms Notes Acknowledgments Index