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Resource type: Book Chapter Language: en: English BibTeX citation key: PriceJr2019 Email resource to friend View all bibliographic details |
Categories: General Keywords: "White Donkey", Genre, Uriarte. Maximilian, USA, War Creators: Norden, Price, Jr., Weir Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publ. (Newcastle upon Tyne) Collection: Pop Culture Matters |
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William Price, Jr., brings the Literature section back full circle to the topic of war veterans with his study of Maximilian Uriarte’s 2016 graphic novel The White Donkey: Terminal Lance. Treating the graphic war novel as a genre in and of itself and employing White Donkey as a case in point, Price notes the form’s special use of colour, psycho-narration, and process for stripping away the heroic, larger-than-life qualities often attached to soldiers. As he argues, “The graphic war novel demythologises the Soldier by undermining heroic mythoi identifiable with a combat veteran to attack preconceptions about the archetype of the Soldier and even war itself.”
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