EAN: 9783030969622

PALGRAVE STUDIES IN COMICS AND GRAPHIC NOVELS ...

This book mobilises the concept of kitsch to investigate the tensions around the representation
of genocide in international graphic novels that focus on the Holocaust and the genocides in
Armenia  Rwanda  and Bosnia. In response to the predominantly negative readings of kitsch as
meaningless or inappropriate  this book offers a fresh approach that considers how some of the
kitsch strategies employed in these works facilitate an affective interaction with the genocide
narrative. These productive strategies include the use of the visual metaphors of the animal
and the doll figure and the explicit and excessive depictions of mass violence. The book also
analyses where kitsch still produces problems as it critically examines depictions of
perpetrators and the visual and verbal representations of sexual violence. Furthermore  it
explores how graphic novels employ anti-kitsch strategies to avoid the dangers of excess in
dealing with genocide. The Representation of Genocide in Graphic Novels will appeal to those
working in comics-graphic novel studies  popular culture studies  and Holocaust and genocide
studies.

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