[Comicsstudiessociety] Invitation to Virtual Book Launch: Documenting Trauma in Comics

Tue Jun 9 11:06:18 EDT 2020

I am SO excited about this book! Congratulations, but more importantly, thank you for your work on it!

Kate 

> On Jun 9, 2020, at 10:45 AM, Candida Rifkind via ComicsStudiesSociety <comicsstudiessociety at lists.osu.edu> wrote:
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> Invitation to the Virtual Book Launch of a New Transnational Collection of Scholarly Essays & Comics
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> Documenting Trauma in Comics: Traumatic Pasts, Embodied Histories, and Graphic Reportage
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> Edited by Dominic Davies (City, University of London) &
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> Palgrave Studies in Comics and Graphic Novels (2020)
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> VIRTUAL LAUNCH INFO (pre-registration required)
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> When: Jun 23, 2020 12:00pm CST/ 1:00pm EST/ 6:00pm GMT/ 7:00pm CET/ 10:30pm IST
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> Please email me directly for the Zoom registration link: c.rifkind at uwinnipeg.ca
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> After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the launch.
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> Launch attendees will receive info about discounts on the book.
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> ABOUT THE BOOK
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> Why are so many contemporary comics and graphic narratives written as memoirs or documentaries of traumatic events? Is there a specific relationship between the comics form and the documentation and reportage of trauma? How do the interpretive demands made on comics readers shape their relationships with traumatic events? And how does comics’ documentation of traumatic pasts operate across national borders and in different cultural, political, and politicised contexts? 
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> The sixteen chapters and three comics included in Documenting Trauma in Comics set out to answer exactly these questions. Drawing on a range of historically and geographically expansive examples, the contributors bring their different perspectives to bear on the tangled and often fraught intersections between trauma studies, comics studies, and theories of documentary practices and processes. The result is a collection that shows how comics is not simply related to trauma, but a generative force that has become central to its remembrance, documentation, and study.
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> TABLE OF CONTENTS
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> Chapter 1: Dominic Davies, ‘Introduction: Documenting Trauma in Comics’
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> Section 1: ‘Documenting Trauma’
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> Chapter 2: Katalin Orbán, ‘Hierarchies of Pain: Trauma Tropes Today and Tomorrow”
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> Chapter 3: Alexandra Lloyd, ‘Emotional History and Legacies of War in Recent German Comics and Graphic Novels’
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> Chapter 4: Michael Goodrum, ‘The Past That Will Not Die: Trauma, Race, and Zombie Empire in Horror Comics of the 1950s’
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> Chapter 5: Sarah McNicol, ‘Exploring Trauma and Social Haunting Through Community Comics Creation’
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> Chapter 6: Nicola Streeten, ‘Documenting Trauma’ (comic)
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> Section 2: ‘Traumatic Pasts’
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> Chapter 7: E. Dawson Varughese, ‘Traumatic moments: Retrospective ‘Seeing’ of Violation, Rupture, and Injury in Three Post-millennial Indian Graphic Narratives’
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> Chapter 8: A.P. Payal and Rituparna Sengupta, ‘This Side, That Side: Restoring Memory, Restorying Partition’
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> Chapter 9: Haya Saud Alfarhan, ‘Visual Detention: Reclaiming Human Rights Through Memory in Leila Abdelrazaq’s Baddawi’
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> Chapter 10: Una, ‘Crying in the Chapel’ (comic)
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> Section 3: ‘Embodied Histories’
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> Chapter 11: Ian Hague, ‘Folding, Cutting, Reassembling: Materializing Trauma and Memory in Comics’
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> Chapter 12: Emma Parker, ‘’’To Create Her World Anew’: Charlotte Salomon’s Graphic Life Narrative’
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> Chapter 13: Ana Baeza Ruiz, ‘Una’s Becoming Unbecoming Visuality, and Sexual Trauma”
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> Chapter 14: Eszter Szép, ‘Discourses of Trauma and Representation: Motherhood and Mother Tongue in Miriam Katin’s Graphic Memoirs’
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> Chapter 15: Bruce Mutard, ‘First Person Third’ (comic)
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> Section 4: ‘Graphic Reportage’
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> Chapter 16: Nina Mickwitz, ‘Comics Telling Refugee Stories’
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> Chapter 17: Candida Rifkind, ‘Migrant Detention Comics and the Aesthetic Technologies of Compassion’
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> Chapter 18: Johannes C.P. Schmid, ‘Comics as Memoir and Documentary: A Case Study of Sarah Glidden”
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> Chapter 19: Hillary Chute, ‘Afterword’
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> Candida Rifkind, PhD
> Professor | Department of English | University of Winnipeg 
> 515 Portage Ave., Winnipeg, Manitoba R3B 2E9 CANADA
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