The Representation of Genocide in Graphic Novels Considering the Role of Kitsch /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: in 't Veld, Laurike (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2019.
• Σειρά: Palgrave Studies in Comics and Graphic Novels
• Θέματα: Communication.; Popular Culture.; Literature, Modern-20th century.; Literature, Modern-21st century.; Culture-Study and teaching.; Historiography.; Media and Communication.; Popular Culture .; Contemporary Literature.; Cultural Theory.; Memory Studies.

This book mobilises the concept of kitsch to investigate the tensions around the representation of genocide in international graphic novels that focus on the Holocaust and the genocides in Armenia, Rwanda, and Bosnia. In response to the predominantly negative readings of kitsch as meaningless or ina...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 1. Introduction: Graphic Novels, Genocide, Kitsch
• 2. (In)human Visual Metaphors: The Animal and the Doll
• 3. From Gruesome to Grey: The Moralisation of Perpetrators
• 4. Visualising Violence and Sexual Violence
• 5. Modernism and Historical Accuracy: Anti-Kitsch Strategies
• 6. Conclusion.