Disaster Drawn

Visual Witness, Comics, and Documentary Form

Hillary L. Chute

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English

The Belknap Press
12 January 2016

Comic book & cartoon art; Graphic novels: history & criticism; Warfare & defence

"In 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, Disaster Drawn 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.

Hillary 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 Ore Wa Mita (""I Saw It"")-a title that alludes to Goya's famous Disasters of War etchings.

Chute 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. Disaster Drawn 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."

By: Hillary L. Chute
Imprint: The Belknap Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 28mm
Weight: 792g
ISBN: 9780674504516
ISBN 10: 0674504518
Pages: 376
Publication Date: 12 January 2016
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Hillary L. Chute is Professor of English at Northeastern University.

Reviews for Disaster Drawn: Visual Witness, Comics, and Documentary Form

Chute s work is a magnificently insightful and meticulously researched analysis of the powerful role comics play in witnessing war and trauma What emerges is a particularly impressive sense of the sustained power of comics and drawing.--Hans Rollman PopMatters (05/06/2016)