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Visualising Small Traumas

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Cultural history of contemporary Portuguese comics and their creative responses to trauma

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.

This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content).

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ISBN: 9789462703032
Publication date:
Author: Pedro Moura
Publisher: Leuven University Press an imprint of Universitaire Pers Leuven
Format: Paperback
Pagination: 235 pages
Series: Studies in European Comics and Graphic Novels
Genres: Graphic novels, Comic books, Cartoons, Manga
Trauma and shock
Graphic novels