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This Book Contains Graphic Language - 9780826428776

Un libro in lingua di Rocco Versaci edito da Continuum Intl Pub Group, 2007

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Comic books are a true literature, according to this book, which aims to prove its point by comparing the medium to memoir, Holocaust memoir and photography, journalism, film, and the "classics" of literature. The author, for example, compares autobiographical comics to memoir, suggesting that the best comics raise the same issues as their prose counterparts and with as much sophistication, but also arguing that the nature of the medium allows comic book writers to explore issues of self-representation in ways not available to the prose memoirist. Similarly, he compares Art Spiegelman's Maus to Holocaust memoir and photography; journalistic comics such as Joe Sacco's Palestine or The Fixer to the "New Journalists" of the 1960s, war comics to war films, and comic adaptations of canonical literature to the originals. Annotation ©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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