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Introduction: Graphic Novels, Genocide, Kitsch

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This introductory chapter offers a useful and thorough contextualisation and explication of the central elements in the book: graphic novels, genocide, and kitsch. Outlining her corpus, in ’t Veld puts forward a comparative approach that analyses graphic novels that deal with the Holocaust and the genocides in Armenia, Rwanda, and Bosnia. The chapter positions kitsch as a significant aesthetic mode that constitutes both a “too much” and a “too little” and is often dismissed as meaningless or inappropriate. in ’t Veld offers a fresh perspective on kitsch, arguing that a productive approach to kitsch offers valuable insights into the tensions around representations of genocide in graphic novels.

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in ’t Veld, L. (2019). Introduction: Graphic Novels, Genocide, Kitsch. In: The Representation of Genocide in Graphic Novels. Palgrave Studies in Comics and Graphic Novels. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03626-3_1

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