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Book SynopsisNovel Perspectives on German-Language Comics Studies: History, Pedagogy, Theory gathers an international team of contributors from two continents whose innovative scholarship demonstrates a regard for comics and graphic novels as works of art in their own right. The contributions serve as models for further research that will continue to define the relationship between comics and other traditional high art forms, such as literature and the visual arts. Novel Perspectives on German-Language Comics Studies is the first English-language anthology that focuses exclusively on the graphic texts of German-speaking countries. In its breadth, this book functions as an important resource in a limited pool of critical works on German-language comics and graphic novels. The individual chapters differ significantly from one another in methodology, subject matter, and style. Taken together, however, they present a cross-section of comics and graphic novel scholarship being performed in North America
Trade ReviewFor an English-language audience, this volume finds its niche foregrounding the developing discussion on German-language comics that began with editor Andreas Knigge’s volume Fortsetzung folgt. * German Studies Review *
A timely collection of excellent essays that combine historical investigation and close analysis of German-language comics with compelling suggestions for further research and teaching. Highly recommended! -- Daniel Stein, University of Siegen
This important look at comics and graphic novels of German origin is both remarkable and surprising. It offers historical and theoretical approaches for practical use. It makes also German scholars and teachers curious about our contemporary graphic literature. -- Bernd Dolle-Weinkauff, University of Frankfurt
Table of ContentsIntroduction Lynn Marie Kutch CONTEXTS AND HISTORIES Chapter 1 - German Comics: Form, Content and Production Matt Hambro Chapter 2 - Before They Were “Art:” (West) German Proto-Comics and Comics: A Brief and Somewhat Subjective Survey Eckhard Kuhn-Osius GERMAN CULTURAL EDUCATION Chapter 3 - Nothing but Exclamation Points? Comics in the Bavarian Academic High School Jens Kußmann Chapter 4 - The Book of Revelation as Graphic Novel: Reimagining the Bible in Present-Day Europe Jan Alexander van Nahl GRAPHIC NOVELS: HANDS-ON Chapter 5 - Using Graphic Novels for Content Learning in the German-Studies Classroom: The Basel City Reportage Operation Läckerli Julia Ludewig Chapter 6 - “Show and Tell:” Using Graphic Novels for Teaching East German History in the Novice and Intermediate Foreign-Language German Classroom Antje Krueger GENERATIONS OF GERMAN HISTORY Chapter 7 - Tensions Acrobatics in Comic Art: Line Hoven’s Liebe schaut weg Bernadette Raedler Chapter 8 - Perspectivity in Graphic Novels about War: Germany’s Bundeswehr Operation in Afghanistan Joshua Kavaloski AUSTRIAN VOICES Chapter 9 - Cultural Legitimacy and Nicolas Mahler’s Autobiographical Comics Vance Byrd Chapter 10 - The Perfection of Imperfection: Nicolas Mahler’s Alte Meister Brett Sterling Chapter 11 - Patterns of Memory and Self-Confrontation in Gerald Hartwig’s Chamäleon Lynn Marie Kutch
