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Ethics in the gutter : empathy and historical fiction in comics. Kate Polak

Polak, Kate [19..-...] 2017

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  • Title:
    Ethics in the gutter : empathy and historical fiction in comics. Kate Polak
  • Author: Polak, Kate [19..-...]
  • Publisher: Columbus, Ohio : The Ohio State University Press, C 2017
  • Subjects: Empathie;
    Art et morale;
    Bandes dessinées historiques;
    Comics;
    Romans graphiques;
    Comic books, strips, etc -- History and criticism;
    Empathy -- Comic books, strips, etc;
    Historical fiction -- History and criticism;
    Violence -- Comic books, strips, etc;
    Graphic novels -- History and criticism
  • Includes: Notes bibliogr. Bibliogr. p. 223-229. Index
  • lds03: Being a dog: transformation, focalization, and memory in Deogratias Just like Sally: rape and reflexivity in Watchmen "We're still here": authenticity and memory in Scalped My children will remember all of the things I tried to forget: Bayou and intergenerational trauma Telling the wound: framing and restricted narration in Hellblazer Conclusion: (The) moving past
  • lds04: Ethics in the Gutter: Empathy and Historical Fiction in Comics explores an often-overlooked genre of graphic narratives: those that fictionalize historical realities. While autographics, particularly those that place the memoirist in the context of larger cultural conversations, have been the objects of sustained study, fictional graphic narratives that - as Linda Hutcheon has put it - both "enshrine and question" history are also an important area of study. By bringing narratology and psychological theory to bear on a range of graphic narratives, Kate Polak seeks to question how the form utilizes point of view and the gutter as ethical tools that shape the reader's empathetic reactions to the content. This book's most important questions surround how we receive and interpret representations of history, considering the ways in which what we think we know about historical atrocities can be at odds with the convoluted circumstances surrounding violence. Beginning with a new look at "Watchmen," and including examinations of such popular series as "Scalped" and "Hellblazer" as well as "Bayou" and "Deogratias," the book questions how graphic narratives create an alternative route by which to understand large-scale violence. Ethics in the Gutter explores how graphic narrative representations of violence can teach readers about the possibilities and limitations of empathy and ethics
  • Language: English
  • Creation Date: 2017
  • Identifier: 978-0-8142-1353-7 ; 0-8142-1353-7 ; 978-0-8142-5445-5 ; 0-8142-5445-4
  • Format: 1 vol. (xiii-238 p.) : ill., couv. ill. en coul. ; 23 cm
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