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Visualising Small Traumas

Contemporary Portuguese Comics at the Intersection of Everyday Trauma

Pedro Moura

Portugal’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.

By looking at established graphic novels by Marco Mendes and Miguel Rocha, fanzine-level, and even experimental productions, Visualising Small Traumas is 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.

€ 59,50 / £53.00 ISBN 978 94 6270 303 2 February 2022 Paperback, 17 × 23 cm Illustrated, 30 pp. in colour ca. 240 pp. English Studies in European Comics and Graphic Novels 9 Pedro Moura is an independent scholar, teacher, and comics scriptwriter from Lisbon,

Portugal. He holds a PhD from the University of Lisbon and KU Leuven.

PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED IN THE SERIES

POSTCOLONIALISM AND MIGRATION IN FRENCH COMICS

MARK MCKINNEY € 65,00 / £59.00, ISBN 978 94 6270 241 7, paperback, ebook

COMICS OF THE NEW EUROPE. REFLECTIONS AND INTERSECTIONS

MARTHA KUHLMAN, JOSÉ ALANIZ (EDS) € 59,50 / £53.00, ISBN 978 94 6270 212 7, paperback

Cultural history of contemporary Portuguese comics and their creative responses to trauma

For more information about the series, visit www.lup.be/comics.