ETHICS IN THE GUTTER: Empathy and Historical Fiction in Comics
Series Title Page
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
CONTENTS
ILLUSTRATIONS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INTRODUCTION: HISTORY, METAFICTION, AND THE AFFECTIVE POWER OF GRAPHIC NARRATIVES
REPRESENTING THE UNREPRESENTABLE
SITUATING THE FORM
THE ETHICAL SITUATION
EMPATHY IS THE ENEMY
FOCALIZATION
MOVING FORWARD
CHAPTER 1: BEING A DOG: Transformation, Focalization, and Memory in Deogratias
THE IMAGE WITHIN THE PANEL
TIME AND MEMORY
THE BYSTANDER AND THE SCAVENGER
FOCALIZING GUILT AND SHAME
CHAPTER 2: JUST LIKE SALLY: Rape and Reflexivity in Watchmen
WATCHMEN AND HISTORIOGRAPHIC METAFICTION
RAPE JOKES
SEEING WHAT YOU WANT
LAURIE ON MARS
WHO WATCHES?
PERSPECTIVE AND OCCUPATION
CHAPTER 3: “WE’RE STILL HERE”: Authenticity and Memory in Scalped
NATIVE INTELLECT
PINE RIDGE SHOOT-OUT
BE(COME)ING “INDIAN”
LIVING HISTORY
CHAPTER 4: MY CHILDREN WILL REMEMBER ALL OF THE THINGS I TRIED TO FORGET: Bayou and Intergenerational Trauma
MEMORY AS CURATION
THROUGH THE BAYOU’S LOOKING GLASS
“HAUNTED” OR STALKED?
BILLY GLASS AND THE BUTTERFLY WINGS
EMERGING
FORGETTING
CHAPTER 5: TELLING THE WOUND: Framing and Restricted Narration in Hellblazer
CONTESTED SPACE: THE ANNIHILATION OF THE TASMANIAN ABORIGINES
VIOLATED MARGINS
CONSTANTINE IN THE PIT
THE “WHOLE STORY”
CONCLUSION: (THE) MOVING PAST
WORKS CITED
INDEX
STUDIES IN COMICS AND CARTOONS: LUCY SHELTON CASWELL AND JARED GARDNER, SERIES EDITORS