Miers, John (2019) Picturing national and personal acts of violence : modes of depiction in Barefoot Gen. In: Mickwitz, Nina , Horton, Ian and Hague, Ian, (eds.) Representing Acts of Violence in Comics. Abingdon, U.K. and New York, U.S. : Routledge. pp. 19-34. ISBN 9781138484535

Abstract

Keiji Nakazawa’s semi-autobiographical story about surviving the detonation of an atomic bomb over Hiroshima, Japan on August 6, 1945, Barefoot Gen (Nakazawa 2005a, 2005b), responds to a violent act of geopolitics, but focuses primarily on the depiction of smaller-scale responses to this act rather than the spectacular manifestation of war that motivated its production. It presents a strongly anti-war message, and does so, I will argue, not by subverting the conventions of the often violence-heavy genre to which it belongs, but by adhering to them.

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