Trauma in Graphic Memoirs: The Representation and Visualisation of the Tension Between Personal and Collective Trauma in Graphic Memoirs about War.
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2015-06-15
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This thesis focuses on the traumatic experiences that are represented and visualised in three graphic memoirs about war, namely Maus by Art Spiegelman, The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi, and Vietnamerica by GB Tran. The main question that will be answered in this thesis is: how is the tension between personal and collective trauma represented and visualised in graphic memoirs about war? The fields of life-writing and trauma studies will be combined to form a theoretical framework by which the three graphic memoirs will be analysed in depth. To help analyse the graphic memoir, this thesis will also make use of theories about panelling and drawing styles. The aim is to find out how personal trauma can become collective and in which way this is achieved when looking at the three memoirs.
Key words: Trauma, graphic memoir, life-writing, war.
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Faculteit der Letteren