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Gauthier, Tim. "9/11, image control, and the graphic narrative: Spiegelman, Rehr, Torres." Journal of Postcolonial Writing 46.(2010): 369–80. 
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Resource type: Journal Article
Language: en: English
Peer reviewed
DOI: 10.1080/17449855.2010.482420
BibTeX citation key: Gauthier2010
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Keywords: "American Widow", "In the Shadow of No Towers", "Tribeca Sunset", 9/11, Choi. Sungyoon, Rehr. Henrik, Spiegelman. Art, Torres. Alissa, Trauma, USA
Creators: Gauthier
Collection: Journal of Postcolonial Writing
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Abstract
This essay examines three graphic narratives – Spiegelman’s In the Shadow of No Towers, Rehr’s Tribeca Sunset, and Torres’s American Widow – as individual responses to the events of September 11, and, more importantly, to the dominant reconstructions that emerged in the ensuing months. The depersonalization of the event – inevitable in the (re)presentation of a limited set of images – is countered by those presented in the graphic narrative. These authors re‐appropriate sometimes iconic images to speak of their own experiences of 9/11 and its aftermath. In the interplay of images and text (and the blank spaces between) meanings multiply.
  
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