Contexts of Violence in Comics

Description

This book is part of a nuanced two-volume examination of the ways in which violence in comics is presented in different texts, genres, cultures and contexts. Contexts of Violence in Comics asks the reader to consider the ways in which violence and its representations may be enabled or restricted by the contexts in which they take place. It analyzes how structures and organising principles, be they cultural, historical, legal, political or spatial, might encourage, demand or prevent violence. It deals with the issue of scale: violence in the context of war versus violence in the context of an individual murder, and provides insights into the context of war and peace, ethnic and identity-based violence, as well as examining issues of justice and memory. This will be a key text and essential reference for scholars and students at all levels in Comics Studies, and Cultural and Media Studies more generally. Cover Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Contents List of Figures Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction History and Memory 1 Doing Justice to the Past through the Representation of Violence: Three and Ancient Sparta 2 Comics Do Not Forget: Historical Memory and Experiences of Violence in the Spanish Civil War and Early Francoism 3 Legacies of War: Remembering Prisoner of War Experiences in French Comics about the Second World War 4 ‘I think we’re maybe more or less safe here’: Violence and Solidarity during the Lebanese Civil War in Zeina Abirached’s A Game for Swallows War and Peace 5 In a Growing Violent Temper: The Swedish Comic Market during the Second World War 6 Will Eisner and the Art of War: Educational Comics in the American Defence Industry Urban Conflict 7 Bringing the War Back Home: Reflecting Violence in Brian Wood’s DMZ 8 Infrastructural Violence: Urbicide, Public Space and Post-War Reconstruction in Recent Lebanese Graphic Memoirs Law, Justice and Censorship 9 The Lives of Others: Figuring Grievability and Justice in Contemporary Comics and Graphic Novels 10 Scales of Violence, Scales of Justice and Nate Powell’s Any Empire 11 Oink!: The Story of a Dangerously Funny Comic Index