War Comics A Postcolonial Perspective
War Comics A Postcolonial Perspective by Jeanne-Marie Viljoen, published by Taylor & Francis Group in 2023, offers an in-depth examination of non-fictional visual narratives, including comics and animated documentaries, that depict violent experiences, particularly in the Levant. This 214-page book investigates the challenges of representing trauma when traditional language falls short, proposing that visual narratives can bridge the gap between representation and lived experience.
Readers will find a philosophical exploration of the concept of the ineffable, which broadens the understanding of trauma representation beyond a Western, individualist framework. The book engages with a postcolonial perspective, viewing violence as a continuous thread linked to various historical incidents. Through its analysis, War Comics A Postcolonial Perspective highlights how the formal qualities of visual storytelling can enhance our understanding of trauma and the complexities of representation in contemporary narratives.
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This book focuses on non-fictional, visual narratives (including comics; graphic narratives; animated documentaries and online, interactive documentaries) that attempt to represent violent experiences, primarily in the Levant. In doing so it explores, from a philosophical perspective, the problem of representing trauma when language seems inadequate to describe our experiences and how the visual narrative form may help us with this. The book uses the concept of the ineffable to expand the notion of representation beyond the confines of a western, individualist notion of trauma as event based. In so doing, it engages a postcolonial perspective of trauma, which treats violence as ongoing and connected to several incidents of violence across time and space. This book demonstrates how the formal qualities of visual, non-fiction may help close the gap between representation and experience through the process of ‘dark’ writing.
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