This document is an academic article by Max Bledstein that examines Aleksandar Zograf's graphic novel "Regards from Serbia" and how it visualizes trauma through comics. The article discusses how comics can represent the simultaneity of traumatic experience through lines on the page that juxtapose time and space. It also explores how traumatic imagination can be an effective means of coping with painful memories by recreating and transmitting them.
This document is an academic article by Max Bledstein that examines Aleksandar Zograf's graphic novel "Regards from Serbia" and how it visualizes trauma through comics. The article discusses how comics can represent the simultaneity of traumatic experience through lines on the page that juxtapose time and space. It also explores how traumatic imagination can be an effective means of coping with painful memories by recreating and transmitting them.
This document is an academic article by Max Bledstein that examines Aleksandar Zograf's graphic novel "Regards from Serbia" and how it visualizes trauma through comics. The article discusses how comics can represent the simultaneity of traumatic experience through lines on the page that juxtapose time and space. It also explores how traumatic imagination can be an effective means of coping with painful memories by recreating and transmitting them.
Un-Drawn Experience: Visualizing Trauma in Aleksandar Zografs
Regards from Serbia
Max Bledstein, M.A.
Independent Scholar Aleksandars Dreams Dreams of Others Daydreaming I was always puzzled by the fact that some of the
craziest, funniest ever cartoons were produced
exactly during one of the bleakest moments in the
history of the human kind (Zograf 120)
Animation Comics on Comics Limits of Art In the breakdowns of comics we see the self (in action over a span of time) represented by multiple selves (126) Lines on the page, in how they juxtapose time and space, convey the simultaneity of experience the different competing registersso often a feature of traumatic experience, such as the concomitant presence and absence of memory, consciousness, agency, and affect (262) Trauma: the story of a wound that cries out, that addresses us in the attempt to tell us of a reality or truth that is not otherwise available (4) Traumatic Imagination: one of the most effective means of re-creating, transmitting, and ultimately coping with painful traumatic memories (6) Un-Drawn Experience: Visualizing Trauma in Aleksandar Zografs Regards from Serbia