Comics, the Holocaust and Hiroshima

Comics, the Holocaust and Hiroshima breaks new ground for history by exploring the relationship between comics as a cultural record, historiography, memory and trauma studies. Comics have a dual role as sources: for gauging awareness of the Holocaust and through close analysis, as testimonies and narratives of childhood emotions and experiences.

1. Introduction 2. Case study: National Socialist Persecution and Genocide in Contemporary US Comic Books 3. Childhood Memories of the Holocaust and Vichy 4. Barefoot Gen and Hiroshima: Comic Strip Narratives of Trauma 5. Conclusion

Jane Chapman is Professor of Communications at the University of Lincoln, Research Associate Wolfson College, Cambridge, UK and the author of ten books. She is Principal Investigator for the Arts and Humanities Council's 'Comics and the World Wars - a Cultural Record' project, for which Dan Ellin and Adam Sherif are researchers, and is an AHRC grant holder for two other projects on World War One.

Dan Ellin is Research Assistant for the AHRC funded 'Comics and World Wars' project at the University of Lincoln, UK. A student at the University of Warwick, his research examines the lives and emotions of RAF ground personnel during the Second World War.

Adam Sherif is Researcher on the Arts and Humanities Council's 'Comics and the World Wars' project at the University of Lincoln, UK and is co-authoring a book of the same name. He is also a contemporary comics critic.