Safe Area Gorazde

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• A rough guide to conflict

  Safe Area Gorazde by Joe Sacco 227pp, Jonathan Cape, £14.99 By page nine I stopped noticing that Joe Sacco's work was graphic reportage. By then his cartoon strip had become simply the most direct, unobtrusive means of narration for the stories of Go ... (read full critics)

  guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

• Comics for Grown-Ups

  Comic books, the rock ‘n’ roll of literature, have always been a rigorously disreputable form of junk art for adolescents of body or mind. Hyper-energetic, crude, sexually regressive, and politically simplistic, comics—like rock (and, in recent years ... (read full critics)

  nybooks published on Sun, 22 Aug 2010

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  Sacco does it again with his highly person style of getting into and reporting on contemporary conflicts. Like with Palestine, Sacco looks at the Eastern Bosnia war (1992-95) through the eyes of everyday people. Here, Sacco immerses himself in the community of Gorazde who's primarily Bosnia ... (continue)

  Sacco does it again with his highly person style of getting into and reporting on contemporary conflicts. Like with Palestine, Sacco looks at the Eastern Bosnia war (1992-95) through the eyes of everyday people. Here, Sacco immerses himself in the community of Gorazde who's primarily Bosnian Muslim people struggle to survive and make sense of Bosnian Serb attacks on the community and country.

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• English Books
• Others 272 Pages
• ISBN-10: 1606993968
• ISBN-13: 9781606993965
• Pub date: Apr 04, 2011
• Also available as: Paperback and Hardcover
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