AMES 3256 is also offered in Spring 2025
AMES 3256 is also offered in Spring 2024
AMES 3256 is also offered in Fall 2022
AMES 3256 is also offered in Spring 2022
Spring 2022 | AMES 3256 Section 001: Graphic Novels: Conflict, Peace and Protest (66764)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
Mon,
Wed 09:45AM - 11:00AM
UMTC, East Bank
Burton Hall 125
- Enrollment Status:
Open (19 of 30 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- This course will examine a particular medium - graphic novel and comics - which are inherently rich in visual, narrative and linguistic components. The materials chosen for this course are driven by conflicts in the following four regions: Southeast Asia, East Asia, South Asia, and the Middle East. Through these works, we will explore various geopolitical conflicts, namely, the genocide of the Cambodians committed by the Khmer Rouge; state violence and suppression during the Tiananmen Square protests; regional proxy wars as seen in the Lebanese Civil War; the ongoing crisis of the occupied territory between Israel and Palestine; and complexities of the Vietnam War and its amplification to the question of migration. Given the nature of conflict that always goes above and beyond the question of nation-state, this course will also discuss issues around diasporic experiences, displacement, and multi-generational trauma among war immigrants. This course not only introduces students to historical processes and complexities of these conflicts - both from the national and international points of view - but also challenges students to question the potentials of graphic novels and comics in mediating these understandings for readers. We will particularly question how the medium, its visual and textual techniques, along with thematic interests of the texts in histories of political conflicts, anticipation for peace and resolution navigate or condition the making of a subject, the understandings of protest, remembrance, mourning, and writing itself as political praxes against state amnesia and recurring violence. Finally, this class explores ways in which we can engage with each other via our shared history and vulnerability, and questions whether peace and resolution promised to our generation are, or will ever be, attainable.
- Class Description:
- This course will examine a particular medium - graphic novel and comics - which are inherently rich in visual, narrative and linguistic components. The materials chosen for this course are driven by conflicts in the following four regions: Southeast Asia, East Asia, South Asia and the Middle East. Through these works, we will explore various geopolitical conflicts, namely, the genocide of the Cambodians committed by the Khmer Rouge; state violence and suppression during the Tiananmen Square protests; regional proxy wars as seen in the Lebanese Civil War; the ongoing crisis of the occupied territory between Israel and Palestine; and complexities of the Vietnam War and its amplification to the question of migration. Given the nature of conflict that always goes above and beyond the question of nation-state, this course will also discuss issues around diasporic experiences, displacement, and multi-generational trauma among war immigrants.
- Class Format:
- In-person
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/66764/1223
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 17 November 2021
ClassInfo Links - Spring 2022 Asian & Middle Eastern Studies Classes