Comics Memory by Maaheen Ahmed

Comics Memory by Maaheen Ahmed

Despite the boom in scholarship in both Comics Studies and Memory Studies, the two fields rarely interact--especially with issues beyond the representation of traumatic and autobiographical memories in comics. With a focus on the roles played by styles and archives--in their physical and metaphorical manifestations--this edited volume offers an original intervention, highlighting several novel ways of thinking about comics and memory as comics memory. Bringing together scholars as well as cultural actors, the contributions combine studies on European and North American comics and offer a representative overview of the main comics genres and forms, including superheroes, Westerns, newspaper comics, diary comics, comics reportage and alternative comics. In considering the many manifestations of memory in comics as well as the functioning and influence of institutions, public and private practices, the book exemplifies new possibilities for understanding the complex entanglements of memory and comics.

“Comics Memory succeeds at addressing the role of memory in comics and the role of comics in memory from new vantage points, opening up new avenues for research on the subject… it also proposes new methodologies to examine memory and memory culture more generally.” (Elizabeth “Biz” Nijdam, Image & Narrative, Vol. 20 (1), 2019)

Maaheen Ahmed is a postdoctoral fellow at the Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO) at Ghent University, Belgium. She is currently working on possibilities for conceptualizing the relationship between comics and different kinds of memories, ranging from personal memories to collective and medium-based ones. Her books include Openness of Comics (2016) and Le Statut culturel de la bande dessinée/The Cultural Standing of Comics (2017), co-edited with Stéphanie Delneste and Jean-Louis Tilleuil. She recently received an ERC Starting Grant for her project on children in European comics.

Benoît Crucifix is a FRS-FNRS doctoral fellow at the University of Liège and UCLouvain, Belgium. His thesis focuses on the cultural memory of comics in the contemporary graphic novel. His research on comics memory has been published in European Comic Art, The Comics Grid, Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics and Inks. He isa member of the ACME Comics Research Group and of the editorial board of Comicalités.

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ISBN 13	9783319917450
ISBN 10	3319917455
Title	Comics Memory
Author	Maaheen Ahmed
Series	Palgrave Studies In Comics And Graphic Novels
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Springer International Publishing AG
Year published	2018-08-13
Number of pages	290
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