Category: graphic novels

+ david walker, george takei, graphic memoir, graphic novels, graphic travelogue, harmony becker, japanese american internment, justin eisinger, nighthawk, they called us enemy, world war ii

Fences in George Takei’s “They Called Us Enemy”

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Some of the strongest symbols within George Takei’s They Called Us Enemy are the fences that surround Rohwer and Tule Lake interment camps. There are multiple panels depicting the barbed wire fences, and various angles occur in each of the panels. These images, coupled with Takei’s words, highlight the psychological effects of xenophobia and racism on individuals, especially children such as Takei. I have … Read More Fences in George Takei’s “They Called Us Enemy”

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+ graphic memoir, graphic novels, graphic travelogue, history, holocaust, Jérémie Dres, memory, polish jews, warsaw, poland, We Won't See Auschwitz

Structuring and Rectifying the Past in Jérémie Dres’ “We Won’t See Auschwitz”

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This semester, I taught Jérémie Dres’ We Won’t See Auschwitz. I read Dres’ book last year in Norway, after I visited Warsaw, and it made me think about various things, mainly about the ways that we remember and construct the past. This is one of the recurring themes in the books that we are reading this semester, and it is one of the main … Read More Structuring and Rectifying the Past in Jérémie Dres’ “We Won’t See Auschwitz”

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+ comics, graphic memoir, graphic novels, graphic travelogue, history, imagine wanting only this, kristen radtke

Kristen Radtke’s “Imagine Wanting Only This” and Reality

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Last post, I wrote about memory in Kristen Radtke’s Imagine Wanting Only This. Today, I want to continue that discussion by looking at a few more pages in Radtke’s book. Specifically, I want to look at the ways we remember the past, what gets privileged and what gets forgotten. These moments point to one of the themes of Radtke’s book, the ephemeral and fleeting … Read More Kristen Radtke’s “Imagine Wanting Only This” and Reality

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+ comics, graphic memoir, graphic novels, graphic travelogue, imagine wanting only this, kristen radtke, ruin porn, ruinophilia

Our Fleeting Existence in Kristen Radtke’s “Imagine Wanting Only This”

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Reading Kristen Radtke’s Imagine Wanting Only This, I catch myself constantly moving back and forth within the text, never settling on one page or moving forward in a continuous motion. I find myself caught in, as Hilary Chute says when writing about Joe Sacco’s work, the “often awkward and time-consuming” rhythm, connecting back and forth across the pages the images and text that Radtke … Read More Our Fleeting Existence in Kristen Radtke’s “Imagine Wanting Only This”

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+ bitch planet, comics, farmhand, graphic novels, image comics, Kelly Sue DeConnick, rob guillory, scott mccloud, understanding comics, Valentine De Landro

Having Students Analyze Comics’ Pages: Part I

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In my Literature and Composition Graphic Memoirs’ class, I am having students read various chapters from Scott McCloud’s Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art. During the first week, they read “The Vocabulary of Comics” and “Blood in the Gutter.” At the end of the week, I brought in about 6-7 comics and graphic novels, gave them each specific pages, and had them use McCloud to … Read More Having Students Analyze Comics’ Pages: Part I

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