German Graphic Narratives and Trauma
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture;
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Product details:
- Publisher Camden House
- Date of Publication 27 May 2025
- Number of Volumes Print PDF
- ISBN 9781640142022
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages230 pages
- Size 228x152 mm
- Weight 666 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 26 b/w illus. 700
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Short description:
This volume explores the representation of political, racial, sexual, and environmental trauma in German-language graphic narratives, which has thus far received little scholarly attention.
MoreLong description:
This volume explores the representation of political, racial, sexual, and environmental trauma in German-language graphic narratives, which has thus far received little scholarly attention.
In recent decades, as graphic novels have exploded in popularity and have increasingly been engaged with by scholarship, there has been a marked increase in comics that deal with traumatic experiences. These experiences arise variously from warfare, genocide, terrorism, racism, sexual violence, domestic violence, illness, disability, migration, natural disasters, or climate-change, among other causes. Indeed, scholars including Hillary Chute and Gillian Whitlock have argued that graphic narratives are particularly well-suited to portraying traumatic experiences through the lens of individual memories.
This edited volume builds on the emergent body of work on the representation of trauma in graphic narratives, but focuses exclusively on German-language graphic narratives, whose exploration of trauma has so far received little scholarly attention. Essays dealing with theoretical and conceptual concerns are joined by analyses of individual creators of graphic narratives, including Olivia Vieweg and Volker Reiche. In addition, there are transcribed conversations among the contributors to the graphic story compilation But I Live, Miriam Libicki, Gilad Seliktar, and Barbara Yelin, and between Birgit Weyhe, creator of the graphic narratives Madgermanes and Rude Girl, and the Germanist Priscilla Layne, who is the model for the main character in the latter book. A final essay looks back further with a critical appraisal of the poet Rolf-Dieter Brinkmann's sampling of comics in his late 1960s Popliteratur works.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: Graphic Narratives and Trauma
Elisabeth Krimmer
Part I: Traversing Spaces and Species
1. Landscapes of Trauma: Relational Aesthetics and Politics in Contemporary Transnational German Comics - Katja Herges
2. Going Home: East German Trauma in Olivia Vieweg's Graphic Novels - Evelyn Preuss
3. Olivia Vieweg's Endzeit: The Trauma of Climate Change, Disease, and Plants Run Amok - Heather I. Sullivan
Part II: Rethinking Race
4. Born into Trauma? The Interplay of Biologism and Social Paradigms in Trauma Theory and Graphic Novels - Aylin Bademsoy
5. Birgit Weyhe's Rude Girl (2022): Comics, Blackness, and Transnational Dialogue: A Conversation with Priscilla Layne, Birgit Weyhe, and Elizabeth "Biz" Nijdam - Elizabeth "Biz" Nijdam
Part III: Countering Violence
6. On the Making of But I Live: A Conversation between Miriam Libicki, Gilad Seliktar, and Barbara Yelin - Charlotte Schallie
7. Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: Perpetrators, Postmemory, and Implicated Subjects in Volker Reiche's Kiesgrubennacht - Christina Kraenzle
8. Comics on Display: Conceptual Remarks on Gewalt erzählen: Eine Comic-Ausstellung / Narrating Violence: A Comic Exhibition (Sigmund Freud Museum Vienna) - Marina Rauchenbacher
9. Normative Counterculture: Representational Injustice in Rolf Dieter Brinkmann's Sampling of Comics - John D. Benjamin
Notes on Contributors
Index
