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... reduction, of different histories of oppression. The national signifier of caste appropriates the global form of the graphic narrative. The spatial rhetorics of the graphic page enable Dalit memories to locate themselves in the global memory landscape. Together, these generate a “concentrationary imaginary...

... certainly not a sim plistic children's genre in McCloud's assessment by showing how the complex negotiation between text and image produces useful, narrative tension. Thierry Groensteen considers the panoply of the seemingly independently working graphic con- M o n ic a C hiu 1o í cepts addressed...

..., and the exploration o f new form s of medium-specificity, in this case the w o rd and image interaction in a contem porary hybrid visual print narrative. It should not come as a surprise that it is precisely the graphic novel m edium that highlights the return of an appar­ ently old-fashioned technique8 at the heart...

..., as "re inve ntin g" Hogarth's tableaus in term s of sequential narrative, and thus as the father of the graphic novel.3This history parallels the second m ajor theme, term inology, which begins w ith W ill Eisner's 1978 publication of A Contract with God and his subsequent popularization of the term...

... novels, the dual form alism s o f literary and graphic expression articulate narrative in an inte­ grated system that is extensive and im m ersive.They make use o f characteristics of visual materiality that are enhanced by recent developments in print technology and other form s of mass visual culture...

..., depicted on the story's second and third pages, represents, in narrative terms, a gathering crisis that leads to a climax: the graphic unravel­ ing of Isabel herself, which happens in the third page's final panel (Color Plate 12). Alternately, one m ight consider this story a parody of the archetypal...

... role, as if, fo r instance, the graphic artist has nothing else to do than to add images to texts (speech balloons and narrative captions), w hile having to obey a preform at­ ted layout (for a fictional treatm ent of the classic production line in the comic industry, see Eisner's The Dreamer...

..., or when all this w ill end?"28 Kouno's diptych of graphic narratives, set in 1945 and 2005, depicts three generations o f suffering in the afterm ath o f Hiroshim a. Like m any of the Agent Orange stories, "Town o f Evening Calm" begins w ith courtship and ends w ith catastrophe: a series of blank frames...

... and Donna Reiss (Sterling, VA: Stylus, 2000) 63. 6 Miller 71-72. ,7Tufte 31.Tufte's example of chart usage refers not to the classroom, but the courtroom. 18 Edward Tufte, Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative (Cheshire, CT: Graphic Press, 1997) 34. ...

... of old m edia" (93). We can see this in the hybrid visual print narrative o f graphic novels. In particular, The Playwright reproduces handwriting as the trace of the storyteller, a connection that fuses form with content. But rather than a sim ple nostalgic return to handw riting, Baetens calls...

...Philip Sandifer Copyright © 2008 Regents of the University of Colorado 2008 A mazing Fa n ta sies: T r a u m a , AFFECT, AND SUPERHEROES P h il ip S a n d if e r Comics scholarship, as a whole, has focused prim arily on graphic novels selfcontained narratives with distinct beginnings...

... oscillates between kinds of literary capital as it moves from one bibliographical form to the next.6 Thus, I suggest that the graphic novel embodies a trem endously sophisticated sense of itself, one that locates it in contem porary literary cul­ ture and Literary Studies alike. Page twenty-one comes...

... with the past—that is, the tendency of authors and critics to return to traumatic or painful legacies to imagine projects of historical repair: “Contemporary narratives of slavery dramatize African Americans’ enduring attachments to an unresolved history of racial trauma that appears at once as a site...

... and perfected by Jack Kirby in the 1960s, and can be found at w ork not only in the actionoriented narratives o f Mike Mignola, often considered the contem porary inheritor of Kirby's energetic and stylized technique, but also in the w ork of alternative comics journalist Joe Sacco, whose "graphic non-fiction...

... and horror. Both The Passion o f the Christ and The Punisher, then, show that human relationships can provide strength and hope in the m idst o f suffering and death. In both film s, this the­ matic is worked through graphic images o f the suffering male body. After all that has been w ritten about Gibson's...

... space. So I w ent out and bought myself a Playstation 2, osten­ sibly to find out what was going on.The young man at Best Buy recommended the "Grand Theft A uto" series for its detailed graphics and "free roam ing" capacity. I found myself more intrigued with the experience of interactivity, even from...

... seem unsure how to approach the graphic novel's pulp progenitor. As it took so long fo r American graph­ ic novels to achieve the kind o f respectability accorded to comparable literature in Europe and Japan, authors and scholars of graphic novels are often quick to distance the form from the public's...

... it or enhance textual pos­ s ib ility and play? H o w is p h o to g ra p h y related to narrative? U n d e r w h a t co n d itio n s does the te xt itse lf fu n ction as a graphical elem ent, and w ith w h a t effects? H ow does the ph oto g ra p h ­ ic ca p a city fo r p reservation com pare w ith th e te xtu...

... the destruction of this "perfect narrative." The textual and photographic battle fo r control over the ideology o f em pire, exem plified but not lim ited to O livares him self, reaches its apogee in the graphic design o f O ur Islands.The com plex layout com bining w ritten text and photograph dem onstrates...

... (NewYork: Marvel, 1979-1983) and even m ore clearly visible in the graphic novel Ronin (19831984, New York: DC, 1987), which features a m inor character named Kojim a.The character o f Miho, w ho appears in a num ber o f Sin City narratives, is a further trib ute to Kojima. M iller also drew several cov­...