Footnotes in Gaza (2009) by Joe Sacco: a historian against the grain (anachronism and memory)
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Joe Sacco, Didi-Huberman, Anachronism, Graphic Novel, KillingsAbstract
Notas al pie de Gaza is a graphic novel in wich Joe Sacco sheds light on the killings of Khan Younis and Rafah, carried out by Israeli soldiers in the Palestinian population in the 1950s. In this article, we approach Sacco’s work from Didi-Huberman’s concepts of time and images explained in Ante el tiempo (2008). The analysis shows how Sacco introduces various anachronisms to present past events. These anachronisms -understood as the meddling of one time into another- reveals the difficulty of the historian to relate his present with the past. Underneath this analysis, we are faced with the question of a possible ethical answer and the appropriateness of the described techniques.
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