Documenting Trauma in Comics: Traumatic Pasts, Embodied Histories & Graphic Reportage
- Submitting institution
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City, University of London
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 1294
- Type
- B - Edited book
- DOI
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10.1007/978-3-030-37998-8
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- ISBN
- 978-3-030-37997-1
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- May
- Year of publication
- 2020
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- Yes
- Number of additional authors
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1
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This edited collection (introduction, seventeen contributions, afterword) grew out of a research network (‘Comics and Graphic Novels: The Politics of Form’, September 2016 to July 2018) and an international conference (‘Documenting Trauma: Comics and the Politics of Memory’, July 2017), both of which Davies convened with funding he secured from three different sources and a small committee of postgraduate students and early career lecturers. After the conference, Davies planned to solo-edit the collection. He commissioned the essays, contacted the editors of Palgrave Studies in Comics and Graphic Novels, wrote the book proposal, responded to the readers’ reviews, and secured the contract in early 2018. He formulated the book’s four-part structure, with sections on Documenting Trauma; Traumatic Pasts; Embodied Histories; and Graphic Reportage, and he commissioned original comics for each of the four sections from artists who had attended the ‘Documenting Trauma’ conference.
Davies proceeded as the book’s sole editor until January 2019, when four of the book’s nineteen chapters had been brought to completion. At this point, Candida Rifkind, one of the contributors to the collection, joined Davies as co-editor to share the editorial workload and provide second opinions on difficult chapters. Davies and Rifkind then both edited every remaining chapter at least twice to ensure the high calibre of the collection. They also employed a graduate assistant to help them with the formatting, bibliography, and general copy editing. Davies also wrote a solo-authored introduction (pp. 1-26), a 10,000-word critical history of the sociocultural relationship between trauma and comics, and the tensions between the two disciplines of trauma studies and comics studies (with input from postcolonial and decolonial studies). The introduction challenges dominant conceptions of this relationship, highlighting the contributions made to the field by the book’s constituent chapters, and opening up new avenues for further research in the field.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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