Traumatic absurdity, palimpsest, and play: A Slaughterhouse-Five case study

Comics has a complex relationship to trauma. Earle argues that comics offers unique representational strategies for narratives of trauma and distress (See). Trauma (specifically the individual experience) is often characterised by symptoms relating temporality *flashbacks catatonia), compulsion repeat acts. pivots on an ability make time visible keep it moving through narrative using sequential images. The between two rich diverse opportunities look at how can be made reader.In this paper, I demonstrate ways in which adaptation Slaughterhouse-Five (Vonnegut, North Monteys, 2020) visually represents traumatic experiences within source text and, moreover, book able speak experience theory been grappling with since Freud. explain presentation visual form create something am calling absurdity – coming together textual tropes story neither glorifies, nor condemns, war, but highlights creates comic once both amusing emotionally affective.