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In the Shadow of Trauma In the Shadow of Trauma
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Revisiting Manhattan with Happy Hooligan and the Katzenjammer Kids Revisiting Manhattan with Happy Hooligan and the Katzenjammer Kids
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Politicizing Comics History Politicizing Comics History
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Provisional Equanimity: Citation and Solace in Art Spiegelman’s In the Shadow of No Towers
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Published:March 2023
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Abstract
This chapter applies a different lens to Art Spiegelman's September 11 comics, one that organizes the role of visual media in Spiegelman's memorialization of personal experience and world-historical trauma. The history of comics is imbued with nostalgia—for simpler times and truths, for the familiar faces of childhood heroes. By evoking early twentieth-century Manhattan icons, the chapter suggests that Spiegelman devises a mode of consolation in times of turmoil that is unique to comics. It recounts that Spiegelman turns to early twentieth-century newspaper comics as a source of models to represent what he felt and observed in millennial Manhattan. By borrowing from older modes of comics representation, the chapter notes that he moves toward a complex, layered form of solace. However, as the chapter argues, this mode of citation also risks diminishing the specificity of the event, which many trauma theorists warn against since it encourages forgetting and limits the potential for meaningful change.
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