Telling through Images: The Representation of the Battle of Somme by Joe Sacco

Authors

  • Valéria Sabrina Pereira USP

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5902/1679849X25173

Keywords:

First World War, Somme, Comics, Panorama

Abstract

On the eve of the 100th anniversary of the First World War, the graphic novelist Joe Sacco published The Great War. July 1, 1916: The First Day of the Battle of the Somme, an illustrated panorama about seven meters long without any text. In this paper, it will be discussed how the choice for the first day of the Battle of the Somme as the event that should represent the whole war, the one-sided perspective (the British) and the representation of the army as “a whole organism” function as a sort of argumentation in this illustrated representation of the war. The booklet that comes together with the book will also be analyzed. It brings notes from the cartoonist Sacco that function as a sort of informative subtitle to the drawing, as well as a text by the journalist Adam Hochschild that narrates the events of that day.

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Author Biography

Valéria Sabrina Pereira, USP

Mestrado e Doutorado em Letras (Língua e Literatura Alemã) na USP, pós-doutorados na UFMG, Universität Bern e USP.

References

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Published

2016-12-11

How to Cite

Pereira, V. S. (2016). Telling through Images: The Representation of the Battle of Somme by Joe Sacco. Literatura E Autoritarismo, (17). https://doi.org/10.5902/1679849X25173