Ethics in the Gutter: Empathy and Historical Fiction in Comics (Studies in Comics and Cartoons)

Ethics in the Gutter: Empathy and Historical Fiction in Comics

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Ethics in the Gutter: Empathy and Historical Fiction in Comics (Studies in Comics and Cartoons)

Ethics in the Gutter: Empathy and Historical Fiction in Comics

Written by Kate Polak
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Ethics in the Gutter: Empathy and Historical Fiction in Comics explores an often-overlooked genre of graphic narratives: those that fictionalize historical realities. While autographics, particularly those that place the memoirist in the context of larger cultural conversations, have been the objects of sustained study, fictional graphic narratives that—as Linda Hutcheon has put it—both “enshrine and question” history are also an important area of study. By bringing narratology and psychological theory to bear on a range of graphic narratives, Kate Polak seeks to question how the form utilizes point of view and the gutter as ethical tools that shape the reader’s empathetic reactions to the content.  This book’s most important questions surround how we receive and interpret representations of history, considering the ways in which what we think we know about historical atrocities can be at odds with the convoluted circumstances surrounding violence. Beginning with a new look at Watchmen, and including examinations of such popular series as Scalped and Hellblazer as well as Bayou and Deogratias, the book questions how graphic narratives create an alternative route by which to understand large-scale violence. Ethics in the Gutter explores how graphic narrative representations of violence can teach readers about the possibilities and limitations of empathy and ethics.

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Published September 20, 2017
ISBN 34606751
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Kate Polak writes contemporary fiction and has always been fascinated by character-driven stories. They hold a degree in English Literature and previously worked as an editor before transitioning to writing their own books. Kate Polak lives with their spouse and a very vocal rescue cat.

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