TY - BOOK ID - 85655237 TI - War comics : a postcolonial perspective PY - 2020 SN - 9781003081364 1003081363 9781000163438 1000163431 9781000163353 9781000162291 9781000163391 1000163393 1000163350 9780367533151 0367533154 PB - New York: Routledge, DB - UniCat KW - Documentary comic books, strips, etc. KW - Documentary films KW - Animated films KW - War in literature. KW - Violence in literature. KW - Psychic trauma in literature. KW - Arab-Israeli conflict KW - Animated cartoons (Motion pictures) KW - Animated videos KW - Cartoons, Animated (Motion pictures) KW - Motion picture cartoons KW - Moving-picture cartoons KW - Caricatures and cartoons KW - Motion pictures KW - Abstract films KW - Animation (Cinematography) KW - Animation cels KW - Comic books, strips, etc. KW - Arab-Israeli conflict in literature KW - Israel-Arab conflicts in literature KW - History and criticism. KW - History and critcism. KW - Literature and the conflict. KW - Documentary comic books, strips, etc KW - War in literature KW - Violence in literature KW - Psychic trauma in literature KW - History and criticism KW - Literature and the conflict KW - History and critcism KW - E-books KW - Documentary comic books, strips, etc - History and criticism KW - Documentary films - History and criticism KW - Animated films - History and criticism KW - Arab-Israeli conflict - Literature and the conflict UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85655237 AB - This book focuses on non-fictional, visual narratives (including comics; graphic narratives; animated documentaries and online, interactive documentaries) that attempt to represent violent experiences, primarily in the Levant. In doing so it explores, from a philosophical perspective, the problem of representing trauma when language seems inadequate to describe our experiences and how the visual narrative form may help us with this. The book uses the concept of the ineffable to expand the notion of representation beyond the confines of a western, individualist notion of trauma as event based. In so doing, it engages a postcolonial perspective of trauma, which treats violence as ongoing and connected to several incidents of violence across time and space. This book demonstrates how the formal qualities of visual, non-fiction may help close the gap between representation and experience through the process of ‘dark’ writing ER -