{"product_id":"disaster-drawn-visual-witness-comics-and-documentary-form-9780674504516","title":"Disaster Drawn: Visual Witness, Comics, and Documentary Form","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn hard-hitting accounts of Auschwitz, Bosnia, Palestine, and Hiroshima's Ground Zero, comics display a stunning capacity to bear witness to trauma. Investigating how hand-drawn comics has come of age as a serious medium for engaging history, \u003ci\u003eDisaster Drawn\u003c\/i\u003e explores the ways graphic narratives by diverse artists, including Jacques Callot, Francisco Goya, Keiji Nakazawa, Art Spiegelman, and Joe Sacco, document the disasters of war. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHillary L. Chute traces how comics inherited graphic print traditions and innovations from the seventeenth century and later, pointing out that at every turn new forms of visual-verbal representation have arisen in response to the turmoil of war. Modern nonfiction comics emerged from the shattering experience of World War II, developing in the 1970s with Art Spiegelman's first \"Maus\" story about his immigrant family's survival of Nazi death camps and with Hiroshima survivor Keiji Nakazawa's inaugural work of \"atomic bomb manga,\" the comic book \u003ci\u003eOre Wa Mita \u003c\/i\u003e(\"I Saw It\")--a title that alludes to Goya's famous \u003ci\u003eDisasters of War\u003c\/i\u003e etchings. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eChute explains how the form of comics--its collection of frames--lends itself to historical narrative. By interlacing multiple temporalities over the space of the page or panel, comics can place pressure on conventional notions of causality. Aggregating and accumulating frames of information, comics calls attention to itself as evidence. \u003ci\u003eDisaster Drawn\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates why, even in the era of photography and film, people understand hand-drawn images to be among the most powerful forms of historical witness.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Belknap Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/12\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780674504516\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 376\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.40h x 6.40w x 1.10d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/15\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChronicle of Higher Education\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/05\/2016 pg. 14\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Hillary L. Chute","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52146975178933,"sku":"9780674504516","price":29.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_0df88ac1-f6a6-4f6e-9867-be693ed3e0fb.jpg?v=1767678277","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/disaster-drawn-visual-witness-comics-and-documentary-form-9780674504516","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}