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

• Main Author: in 't Veld, Laurike (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Comics and Graphic Novels
• Subjects: 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...

Table of Contents:

• 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.