title: Speaking of Violence: The Politics and Poetics of Narrative in Conflict Resolution (Explorations in Narrative Psychology)
author: Sara Cobb
description: <br />"In this volume that opens the Oxford University Press's 'Explorations in Narrative Psychology' series, Cobb proposes that 'narratives' are the foundation to conflict analysis and resolution. Building on her expertise [...] as a teacher, researcher, facilitator, negotiator, and mediator, Cobb examines the narratives that populate violence and conflict. [...] With its rich theoretical and empirical focus, this truly interdisciplinary volume should be of interest to a variety of scholars and practitioners interested in conflict resolution. Recommended." -L. Stan, <em>CHOICE</em>
zlib_text: War Comics
  This book focuses on non-fictional, visual narratives (including comics, 
  graphic narratives, animated documentaries and online interactive doc-
  umentaries) that attempt to represent violent experiences, primarily in 
  the Levant. In doing so, it explores, from a philosophical perspective, 
  the problem of representing trauma when language seems inadequate 
  to describe our experiences and how the visual narrative form may help 
  us with this. The book uses the concept of the ineffable to expand the 
  notion of representation beyond the confines of a western, individualist 
  notion of trauma as event based. In so doing, it engages a postcolonial 
  perspective of trauma, which treats violence as ongoing and connected 
  to several incidents of violence across time and space. This book demon-
  strates how the formal qualities of visual non-fiction may help fill the 
  gap between representation and experience through the process of ‘dark’ 
  writing.
  Jeanne-Marie Viljoen is an academic in t