Footnotes in Gaza

Resource Information

The work Footnotes in Gaza represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of San Diego Libraries. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Footnotes in Gaza

Statement of responsibility

Joe Sacco

Creator

• Sacco, Joe

Subject

• Arab-Israeli conflict -- 1948-1967 -- Personal narratives, Palestinian
• Egypt -- History -- Intervention, 1956 -- Comic books, strips, etc
• Egypt -- History -- Intervention, 1956 -- Personal narratives, Palestinian
• Graphic novels
• Graphic novels -- United States
• Interviews -- Gaza Strip | Khān Yūnus
• Interviews -- Gaza Strip | Rafaḥ
• Arab-Israeli conflict -- 1948-1967 -- Comic books, strips, etc
• Massacres -- Gaza Strip | Khān Yūnus -- History -- 20th century -- Comic books, strips, etc
• Rafaḥ -- History -- 20th century -- Comic books, strips, etc
• Violence -- Gaza Strip | Rafaḥ -- History -- 20th century -- Comic books, strips, etc
• Khān Yūnus -- History -- 20th century -- Comic books, strips, etc

Genre

• Graphic novels
• Personal narratives, Palestinian
• Comic books, strips, etc

Language

eng

Summary

"From the great cartoonist-reporter, a sweeping, original investigation of a forgotten crime in the most vexed of places. Rafah, a town at the bottommost tip of the Gaza Strip, is a squalid place. Raw concrete buildings front trash-strewn alleys. The narrow streets are crowded with young children and unemployed men. On the border with Egypt, swaths of Rafah have been bulldozed to rubble. Rafah is today and has always been a notorious flashpoint in this bitterest of conflicts. Buried deep in the archives is one bloody incident, in 1956, that left 111 Palestinians dead, shot by Israeli soldiers. Seemingly a footnote to a long history of killing, that day in Rafah-- cold-blooded massacre or dreadful mistake-- reveals the competing truths that have come to define an intractable war. In a quest to get to the heart of what happened, Joe Sacco immerses himself in daily life of Rafah and the neighboring town of Khan Younis, uncovering Gaza past and present. Spanning fifty years, moving fluidly between one war and the next, alive with the voices of fugitives and schoolchildren, widows and sheikhs, Footnotes in Gaza captures the essence of a tragedy" -- from publisher's web site

Biography type

contains biographical information

Cataloging source

DLC

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

LC call number

DS119.7

LC item number

.S29 2009

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography