Comics, the Holocaust and Hiroshima - Print on Demand

Informationen zum Autor Jane Chapman is Professor of Communications at the University of Lincoln, Research Associate Wolfson College, Cambridge, UK and the author of ten books. She is Principal Investigator for the Arts and Humanities Council's 'Comics and the World Wars - a Cultural Record' project, for which Dan Ellin and Adam Sherif are researchers, and is an AHRC grant holder for two other projects on World War One. Dan Ellin is Research Assistant for the AHRC funded 'Comics and World Wars' project at the University of Lincoln, UK. A student at the University of Warwick, his research examines the lives and emotions of RAF ground personnel during the Second World War. Adam Sherif is Researcher on the Arts and Humanities Council's 'Comics and the World Wars' project at the University of Lincoln, UK and is co-authoring a book of the same name. He is also a contemporary comics critic. Klappentext Comics, the Holocaust and Hiroshima breaks new ground for history by exploring the relationship between comics as a cultural record, historiography, memory and trauma studies. Comics have a dual role as sources: for gauging awareness of the Holocaust and through close analysis, as testimonies and narratives of childhood emotions and experiences. Zusammenfassung Comics! the Holocaust and Hiroshima breaks new ground for history by exploring the relationship between comics as a cultural record! historiography! memory and trauma studies. Comics have a dual role as sources: for gauging awareness of the Holocaust and through close analysis! as testimonies and narratives of childhood emotions and experiences. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction 2. Case study: National Socialist Persecution and Genocide in Contemporary US Comic Books 3. Childhood Memories of the Holocaust and Vichy 4. Barefoot Gen and Hiroshima: Comic Strip Narratives of Trauma 5. Conclusion

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• Authors: Jane Chapman, Jane L Chapman, Jane L. Chapman, Jane L. Sherif Chapman, Dan Ellin, Kenneth A Loparo, Kenneth A. Loparo, Ada Sherif, Adam Sherif, Adam Chapman Sherif
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2015
• EAN: 9781137407238
• ISBN: 978-1-137-40723-8
• No. of pages: 104
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 225 mm x 10 mm
• Series: The Holocaust and its Contexts; The Holocaust and its Contexts
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Interior design, design; Non-fiction book; C, Graphic Design, Cultural History, History, military history, Social & cultural history, world history, General & world history, World History, Global and Transnational History, History, Modern, Civilization—History, Palgrave History Collection, Modern History, History of Military, World War, 1939-1945, History of World War II and the Holocaust