This course explores the use of comics (a form that literally co-mixes or mingles words and images) to represent devastating events in history. Assigned texts include book-length works that use words and images to depict the events of the Holocaust, Hiroshima, the Iranian Revolution, the Bosnian War, Hurricane Katrina, and 9/11. In particular, the course investigates the ways that comics, a form traditionally associated with childish or unserious content, nonetheless lends itself to the depiction of individual and collective trauma. Students will read broadly and critically in the rapidly expanding comics field, as well as experiment with the construction of graphic narratives of their own.

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