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Comics, the Holocaust and Hiroshima

Argues that comics have a dual role as sources on cataclysm between 1939 and 1945, enabling historians to guage awareness of the Holocaust through Quality Comics Group publications in the U.S., and through close analysis of Paroles d'Etoiles in Vichy France and Barefoot Gen in Hiroshima as test...

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Main Authors: Chapman, Jane (Author, VerfasserIn)
Ellin, Dan (VerfasserIn)
Sherif, Adam (VerfasserIn)
Document Type: Book
Language:English
Published: Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan , 2015
Series:The Holocaust and its contexts
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Author Notes:Jane L. Chapman (University of Lincoln, UK), Dan Ellin (University of Lincoln, UK), and Adam Sherif (University of Lincoln, UK)
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Summary:Argues that comics have a dual role as sources on cataclysm between 1939 and 1945, enabling historians to guage awareness of the Holocaust through Quality Comics Group publications in the U.S., and through close analysis of Paroles d'Etoiles in Vichy France and Barefoot Gen in Hiroshima as testimonies of child witnesses --
Case study : National Socialist persecution and genocide in contemporary U.S. comic books -- Childhood memories of the Holocaust and Vichy -- Barefoot Gen and Hiroshima : comic strip narratives of trauma
Item Description:Literaturverz.: S. 79 - 90
Physical Description:vii, 95 Seiten Illustrationen 23 cm
ISBN:9781137407238