J oe S acco . Footnotes in Gaza
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8615701 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mary N Layoun (University of Wisconsin–Madison, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 123 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 1604-1605 |
| Publication date | 2018-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The American Historical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-8762 • E-ISSN: 1937-5239 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/ahr/rhy350 |
| OpenAlex | W2902495593 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
“And I swear I’ll wrench nothing but the facts from our next batch of eyewitnesses, frail and imperfect as they might be” (119). This fraught promise from the narrator of Joe Sacco’s Footnotes in Gaza signals one of the central contradictions of this comic and, in fact, of eyewitness testimony to a historical event. From the foreword of Footnotes in Gaza to the four appendixes and bibliography that conclude its 432 pages, the visual and verbal tone of Joe Sacco’s investigation into the large-scale killing of Palestinians in Khan Younis and Rafah, Gaza, in November 1956 is distinctly different from that of Palestine (1993–1995), Sacco’s earlier comics account of the West Bank and Gaza. If the initially flippant journalist narrator of Palestine thinks he knows the score before he arrives in Palestine and realizes something else in his encounters with Palestinians and their stories, the narrator of Footnotes in Gaza is, from the outset, far more circumspect; the tone of the comic’s verbal and visual narration is somber, even melancholy
Ancient history · Art · Comics · Literature · Media studies · Narrative · Nothing · Palestine · Political science · Sociology · Tone (literature · West bank · Comics and Graphic Narratives · History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.11 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2017 - 2017 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |