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Moura, Pedro. Visualising Small Traumas: Contemporary Portuguese Comics at the Intersection of Everyday Trauma. Studies in European Comics and Graphic Novels. Leuven: Leuven Univ. Press, 2022. Added by: joachim (3/16/22, 2:21 AM) |
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| Resource type: Book Language: en: English ID no. (ISBN etc.): 9789462703032 BibTeX citation key: Moura2022 Email resource to friend View all bibliographic details  |
Categories: General Keywords: Mendes. Marco, Politics, Portugal, Rocha. Miguel, Trauma Creators: Moura Publisher: Leuven Univ. Press (Leuven) |
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Portugal's vibrant comics scene originated as early as the 19th century, bringing forth brilliant individual artists, but has remained mostly unknown beyond Portugal’s borders to this day. Now a new generation employs this medium to put into question hegemonic views on the economy, politics, and society. Following the experience of the financial crisis of the past decades and its impact on social policies, access to and rules of public discourse, and civil strife, comics have questioned what constitutes a traumatogenic situation and what can act as a creative response. By looking at established graphic novels by Marco Mendes and Miguel Rocha, fanzine-level, and even experimental productions, Visualising Small Traumas is the first English-language book that addresses Portuguese contemporary comics and investigates how trauma studies can both shed a light on comics making and be informed by that very same practice. Table of Contents Acknowledgments (9) Introduction: Going small to widen the scope (11) 1. The semi-peripheral role of the Portuguese comics scene (23) Conclusion (215) References (223) Added by: joachim Last edited by: joachim |