Abstract
Keiji Nakazawa‘s semi-autobiographical story about surviving the detonation of an atomic bomb over Hiroshima, Japan on August 6, 1945, Barefoot Gen (Nakazawa 2005a, 2005b), responds to a violent act of geopolitics, but focuses primarily on the depiction of smaller-scale responses to this act rather than the spectacular manifestation of war that motivated its production. It presents a strongly anti-war message, and does so, I will argue, not by subverting the conventions of the often violence-heavy genre to which it belongs, but by adhering to them.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Representing Acts of Violence in Comics |
| Editors | Nina Mickwitz, Ian Horton, Ian Hague |
| Place of Publication | Abingdon, U.K. and New York, U.S. |
| Publisher | Routledge |
| Pages | 19-34 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781138484535 |
| Publication status | Published - 2019 |
Keywords
- Art and design