{"product_id":"visualising-small-traumas-pedro-moura-9789462703032","title":"Visualising Small Traumas: Contemporary Portuguese Comics at the Intersection of Everyday Trauma","description":"\u003cp\u003ePortugal's vibrant comics scene originated as early as the 19th century, bringing forth brilliant individual artists, but has remained mostly unknown beyond Portugal's borders to this day. Now a new generation employs this medium to put into question hegemonic views on the economy, politics, and society. Following the experience of the financial crisis of the past decades and its impact on social policies, access to and rules of public discourse, and civil strife, comics have questioned what constitutes a traumatogenic situation and what can act as a creative response.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy looking at established graphic novels by Marco Mendes and Miguel Rocha, fanzine-level, and even experimental productions, \u003ci\u003eVisualising Small Traumas \u003c\/i\u003eis the first English-language book that addresses Portuguese contemporary comics and investigates how trauma studies can both shed a light on comics making and be informed by that very same practice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Pedro Moura\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 9462703035\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9789462703032\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Leuven University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/15\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.80w x 0.53d","brand":"Pedro Moura","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44057129353471,"sku":"9789462703032","price":69.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ac2e91e9-57a1-4f7b-9f2d-ed94bc785fe1.jpg?v=1685045201","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/visualising-small-traumas-pedro-moura-9789462703032","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}