Documentary comics : graphic truth-telling in a skeptical age
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Documentary comics : graphic truth-telling in a skeptical age
（Palgrave studies in comics and graphic novels）
Palgrave Macmillan, 2016
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-184) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Can comics be documentary, and can documentary take the form of, and thus be, comics? Examining comics as documentary, this book challenges the persistent assumption that ties documentary to recording technologies, and instead engages an understanding of the category in terms of narrative, performativity and witnessing. Through a cluster of early twenty-first century comics, Nina Mickwitz argues that these comics share a documentary ambition to visually narrate and represent aspects and events of the real world.
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. Non-fiction comics and documentary
2. The truth-claims of images
3. History in the making: comics, history and collective memory
4. The persistence of the travelogue
5. Visibility and voice
6. Short-form documentary webcomics
Conclusion
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