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.
Laurike in 't Veld is a lecturer at the Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication and a research associate at the Center for Historical Culture, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
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“Laurike in ’t Veld’s book … is a welcome and accessible contribution to the field. … attention to other artists and works, and to the productive possibilities of using kitsch as a category to think through the tensions of genocide graphic novels, makes this an original and laudable advance in comics studies.” (Candida Rifkind, Inks: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society, Vol. 3 (3), 2019)
Innehållsförteckning
1. Introduction: Graphic Novels, Genocide, Kitsch.- 2. (In)human Visual Metaphors: The Animal and the Doll.- 3. From Gruesome to Grey: The Moralisation of Perpetrators.- 4. Visualising Violence and Sexual Violence.- 5. Modernism and Historical Accuracy: Anti-Kitsch Strategies.- 6. Conclusion.