Comics and Catharsis – Exploring Graphic Narratives of Trauma and Healing

Comics and CatharsisExploring Graphic Narratives of Trauma and Healing\nAuthor(s): Jordan Tronsgard\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University Press of Mississippi, United States\nImprint: University Press of Mississippi\nISBN-13: 9781496858931, 978-1496858931\nSynopsis\nContributions by Kelly Baron, Angie Chau, Jennifer Nagtegaal, Lee Okan, Diana Pifano, Russell Samolsky, Kay Sohini, Anastasia Ulanowicz, and Aanchal Vij\n\n Comics and Catharsis: Exploring Graphic Narratives of Trauma and Healing explores the idea that trauma and healing hold an imbalance in many forms of literaturebut especially in the world of comics. Whether it be war-based, national, physical, or sexual trauma, this volume looks at a wide variety of trauma and the psychological pain and devastation that arise during andcrucially for the question of trauma narrativesfollowing the events as the psychological (and often physical) wounds are processed.\n\nEssayists in the collection engage with questions of how comics .