Beschreibung:
Despite the boom in scholarship in both Comics Studies and Memory Studies, the two fields rarely interact-especially with issues beyond the representation of traumatic and autobiographical memories in comics. With a focus on the roles played by styles and archives-in their physical and metaphorical manifestations-this edited volume offers an original intervention, highlighting several novel ways of thinking about comics and memory as comics memory. Bringing together scholars as well as cultural actors, the contributions combine studies on European and North American comics and offer a representative overview of the main comics genres and forms, including superheroes, Westerns, newspaper comics, diary comics, comics reportage and alternative comics. In considering the many manifestations of memory in comics as well as the functioning and influence of institutions, public and private practices, the book exemplifies new possibilities for understanding the complex entanglements of memory and comics.
Despite the boom in scholarship in both Comics Studies and Memory Studies, the two fields rarely interact—especially with issues beyond the representation of traumatic and autobiographical memories in comics. With a focus on the roles played by styles and archives—in their physical and metaphorical manifestations—this edited volume offers an original intervention, highlighting several novel ways of thinking about comics and memory as comics memory. Bringing together scholars as well as cultural actors, the contributions combine studies on European and North American comics and offer a representative overview of the main comics genres and forms, including superheroes, Westerns, newspaper comics, diary comics, comics reportage and alternative comics. In considering the many manifestations of memory in comics as well as the functioning and influence of institutions, public and private practices, the book exemplifies new possibilities for understanding the complex entanglements of memory and comics.
1. Introduction: Untaming Comics Memory (Maaheen Ahmed & Benoît Crucifix).- 2. Portrait of the Artist as a Nostalgic: Seth's It's a Good Life if You Don't Weaken (Giorgio Busi Rizzi).- 3. ‘It’s All Come Flooding Back’: Memories of Childhood Comics (Mel Gibson).- 4. Archives and Oral History in Emmanuel Guibert’s Le Photographe (Bettina Egger).- 5. The Ever-Shifting Wall: Edmond Baudoin and the ‘Continuous Poem’ of Autobiography (Pedro Moura).- 6. Keep Out, Or Else: Diary as Body in The Diary of a Teenage Girl and Cruddy (Rachel R. Miller).- 7. The Un-erotic Dancer: Sylvie Rancourt’s Melody (Eleanor Ty).- 8. Panique en Atlantique: Bridging Personal and Collective Memories of L’Association and Comics History (Christian Reyns-Chikuma).- 9. Comics History and the Question of Delinquency: The Case of Criminal (Christopher Pizzino).- 10. Sons and Grandsons of Origins: Narrative Memory in Marvel Superhero Comics (Jean-Matthieu Méon).- 11. A Trip Down Memory Lane: Reprints and Canonization of Morris’ Lucky Luke Series (Nicolas Martinez).- 12. Selective Memory: Art History and the Comic Strip Work of Jack B. Yeats (Michael Connerty).- 13. The Marie Duval Archive: Memory and the Development of the Comic Strip Canon (Simon Grennan).- 14. The Tremendous Treasure: The Curious Problem of Preserving Belgian Comics Heritage (Roel Daenen).- 15. Fanzines and Swedish Comics Memory (Gunnar Krantz).- 16. Store Memory (Philippe Capart).- 17. Coda: A User Guide to Comics Memory (Maaheen Ahmed and Benoît Crucifix).
