Harriet Earle
Biographic Data
| ID | 125723 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Harriet Earle |
| GIVEN NAMES | Harriet |
| FAMILY NAME | Earle |
| SIGNATURE | EARLE H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Sheffield Hallam University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7354-3733 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
“And Babies?”
The My Lai Massacre holds a special place in the history of the Vietnam War.But the events of that day have never been made coherent, with a stable place within the American popular consciousness.This paper considers the ways in which this event-and its myriad understandings and misunderstandings-is represented in popular culture in general, and in comics in particular.I perform close analyses of two comics.In "Headcount" (Our Army at War #233 [1…
Traumatic absurdity, palimpsest, and play
Comics has a complex relationship to trauma. Earle argues that comics offers unique representational strategies for narratives of trauma and distress (See). Trauma (specifically the individual experience) is often characterised by symptoms relating to temporality *flashbacks and catatonia), and a compulsion to repeat acts. Comics pivots on an ability to make time visible and to keep it moving through a narrative using sequential images. The relat…
Comics
Cultures and commodities
Telling national stories in American Horror Story
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Conflict then; trauma now
This article will consider the shift in representations of the Vietnam War in American comics, concentrating specifically on the shift from gung-ho violence and patriotism to nuanced personal narratives of trauma and the psychological impact of conflict. I will compare and contrast three comics series: The ‘Nam, a Marvel series that ran from 1986 to 1993; The Punisher Invades the ‘Nam, a cross-over series that comprises two arcs over five issues …
Epistemic Breaks, Post-9/11 Trauma, and Siri Hustvedt
Where were you? The question was asked after Kennedy was shot, when the Berlin Wall came down, and when the planes hit the World Trade Center. In September 2001, almost immediately there was a sens
A Convenient Place for Inconvenient People”
Creating the Traumatic Body
Introduction
In early 2014, the Australian government’s Department for Immigration and Border Protection launched a controversial graphic novel on their website, directed against those intending to enter the country “illegally”. Titled using simple, brutal phrasing carrying ironic echoes of lazy anti-Australian stereotyping, No Way was a wordless 18-page comic discouraging potential immigrants. Although there has since been a change of Australian Premier (in …
Strange migrations
This piece by Shaun Tan was originally written as a keynote address to the 33rd International Board on Books for Young People Congress, held in London in August 2012. The version presented here has been edited, with additional questions, by Harriet Earle. For Tan, the comics form offers the freedom and space to discuss issues of identity creation and the role of narrative in this process. As a child of mixed nationality parents, the question of h…
Introduction
In early 2014, the Australian government’s Department for Immigration and Border Protection launched a controversial graphic novel on their website, directed against those intending to enter the country “illegally”. Titled using simple, brutal phrasing carrying ironic echoes of lazy anti-Australian stereotyping, No Way was a wordless 18-page comic discouraging potential immigrants. Although there has since been a change of Australian Premier (in …
Strange migrations
This piece by Shaun Tan was originally written as a keynote address to the 33rd International Board on Books for Young People Congress, held in London in August 2012. The version presented here has been edited, with additional questions, by Harriet Earle. For Tan, the comics form offers the freedom and space to discuss issues of identity creation and the role of narrative in this process. As a child of mixed nationality parents, the question of h…
Creating the Traumatic Body
Introduction
In early 2014, the Australian government’s Department for Immigration and Border Protection launched a controversial graphic novel on their website, directed against those intending to enter the country “illegally”. Titled using simple, brutal phrasing carrying ironic echoes of lazy anti-Australian stereotyping, No Way was a wordless 18-page comic discouraging potential immigrants. Although there has since been a change of Australian Premier (in …
Strange migrations
This piece by Shaun Tan was originally written as a keynote address to the 33rd International Board on Books for Young People Congress, held in London in August 2012. The version presented here has been edited, with additional questions, by Harriet Earle. For Tan, the comics form offers the freedom and space to discuss issues of identity creation and the role of narrative in this process. As a child of mixed nationality parents, the question of h…
Epistemic Breaks, Post-9/11 Trauma, and Siri Hustvedt
Where were you? The question was asked after Kennedy was shot, when the Berlin Wall came down, and when the planes hit the World Trade Center. In September 2001, almost immediately there was a sens
A Convenient Place for Inconvenient People”
Conflict then; trauma now
This article will consider the shift in representations of the Vietnam War in American comics, concentrating specifically on the shift from gung-ho violence and patriotism to nuanced personal narratives of trauma and the psychological impact of conflict. I will compare and contrast three comics series: The ‘Nam, a Marvel series that ran from 1986 to 1993; The Punisher Invades the ‘Nam, a cross-over series that comprises two arcs over five issues …
Telling national stories in American Horror Story
Preview this article: Telling national stories in American Horror Story, Page 1 of 1 /docserver/preview/fulltext/ejac/38/1/ejac.38.1.5_7-1.gif
Comics
Cultures and commodities
Traumatic absurdity, palimpsest, and play
Comics has a complex relationship to trauma. Earle argues that comics offers unique representational strategies for narratives of trauma and distress (See). Trauma (specifically the individual experience) is often characterised by symptoms relating to temporality *flashbacks and catatonia), and a compulsion to repeat acts. Comics pivots on an ability to make time visible and to keep it moving through a narrative using sequential images. The relat…
“And Babies?”
The My Lai Massacre holds a special place in the history of the Vietnam War.But the events of that day have never been made coherent, with a stable place within the American popular consciousness.This paper considers the ways in which this event-and its myriad understandings and misunderstandings-is represented in popular culture in general, and in comics in particular.I perform close analyses of two comics.In "Headcount" (Our Army at War #233 [1…
Art (8 works) · Comics (6 works) · Comics and Graphic Narratives (6 works) · History (6 works) · History (6 works) · Literature (6 works) · Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Law (3 works)