History has always been a matter of arranging evidence into a
narrative, but the public debate over the meanings we attach to a
given history can seem particularly acute in our current age. Like
all artistic mediums, comics possess the power to mold history into
shapes that serve its prospective audience and creator both. It
makes sense, then, that history, no stranger to the creation of
hagiographies, particularly in the service of nationalism and other
political ideologies, is so easily summoned to the panelled page.
Comics, like statues, museums, and other vehicles for historical
narrative, make both monsters and heroes of men while fuelling
combative beliefs in personal versions of United States history.
Drawing the Past, Volume 1: Comics and the Historical Imagination
in the United States, the first book in a two-volume series,
provides a map of current approaches to comics and their engagement
with historical representation. The first section of the book on
history and form explores the existence, shape, and influence of
comics as a medium. The second section concerns the question of
trauma, understood both as individual traumas that can shape the
relationship between the narrator and object, and historical
traumas that invite a reassessment of existing social, economic,
and cultural assumptions. The final section on mythic histories
delves into ways in which comics add to the mythology of the US.
Together, both volumes bring together a range of different
approaches to diverse material and feature remarkable scholars from
all over the world. Contributions by Lawrence Abrams, Dorian
Alexander, Max Bledstein, Peter Cullen Bryan, Stephen Connor,
Matthew J. Costello, Martin Flanagan, Michael Fuchs, Michael
Goodrum, Bridget Keown, Kaleb Knoblach, Christina M. Knopf, Martin
Lund, Jordan Newton, Stefan Rabitsch, Maryanne Rhett, and Philip
Smith.
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