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# Jonathan Cape Safe Area Gorazde: The War in Eastern Bosnia 1992-95

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Review: In chapter four of his The "New Journalism" Revisited, Rocco Versaci explains that to many New Journalists "all "truth" is mediated, and we ignore this fact at the expense of our critical faculties" (115). He further contends that many new journalists attempt to acknowledge and consequently overcome the biases of journalism by involving themselves directly in their narrative frameworks, thereby "flaunting their subjectivity" (114). Joe Sacco's 2001 Safe Area Gorazde is an example of new journalism wherein the author places himself firmly within the story and examines all levels of truth, relaying many voices in non-linear fashion to perhaps encapsulate the skewed emotional ups and downs of war. Sacco, it seems, is not searching for a central truth with which to unify his experiences in Bosnia. In the book's prologue (1-2), he is approached by a man who promises to reveal to him the "Real Truth" of the war. Sacco consciously avoids the man and he is never mentioned again. Instead, Sacco choses to exemplify the facet of new journalism which Versaci finds most enduring: "the foregrounding of the individual perspective as an organizing consciousness" (111) except that Sacco relates many consciousnesses, and the result is less than ideally organized. Instead of an organizer, Sacco acts as mediator in Safe Area Gorazde, creating a vivid patchwork of wartime experience by many people he meets, including his principle guide Edin whose trips to Grebak to procure food for his family showcase tenacity in the face of starvation (136) and a gaggle of girls Sacco deems "The Silly Girls" who have one wish, for a pair of "genuine American Levi jeans" (56). They are ultimately disillusioned when the jeans they receive are "not originals" (193) however, displaying another facet of wartime fatigue. Elsewhere, Sacco uses his characters as narrators--sharing their war experiences which are then related to the reader in disturbing detail. When a man relates his terror crossing a river to safety on page 110, his story appears in quotations, as though he is speaking not only to Sacco but to reader, the author cutting back to the man in the narrative's present tense as he stares straight off the page (111), continuously reminding us that we are viewing this account from one subjective consciousness, not from a journalist intent on applying his own bias. Such is the success of Sacco's new journalistic graphic storytelling. By the time the author is chastised for taking interest in Bosnia by a local who asks, "Why you come, money?" (192) the reader knows that Sacco is instead embedded in the war-ravaged country to bear witness; indeed the people he has seen speak very much for themselves.
Review: コミックジャーナリズムという概念が気になって読んでみました。全編を通じて暗さと重さを感じる作品ですが、ところどころ、作者が見つけたささやかなおもしろみのようなものも伝わって、そういう部分にはコミックならではの柔らかさを感じました。基本的には救いがたい世界が描かれた重苦しい作品です。それでも、終わりまで一気に読みました。ジャーナリズムとしてどうかについてはよくわかりません。

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | #102,635 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #17 in History & Criticism of Comics & Graphic Novels #488 in Literary Movements & Periods #560 in Literary Essays & Correspondence |
| Customer reviews | 4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars (272) |
| Dimensions  | 19 x 1.6 x 25.5 cm |
| Edition  | New Ed |
| ISBN-10  | 022408089X |
| ISBN-13  | 978-0224080897 |
| Item weight  | 607 g |
| Language  | English |
| Print length  | 236 pages |
| Publication date  | 12 April 2007 |
| Publisher  | Jonathan Cape Ltd |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Review
*by K***R on 29 March 2012*

In chapter four of his The "New Journalism" Revisited, Rocco Versaci explains that to many New Journalists "all "truth" is mediated, and we ignore this fact at the expense of our critical faculties" (115). He further contends that many new journalists attempt to acknowledge and consequently overcome the biases of journalism by involving themselves directly in their narrative frameworks, thereby "flaunting their subjectivity" (114). Joe Sacco's 2001 Safe Area Gorazde is an example of new journalism wherein the author places himself firmly within the story and examines all levels of truth, relaying many voices in non-linear fashion to perhaps encapsulate the skewed emotional ups and downs of war. Sacco, it seems, is not searching for a central truth with which to unify his experiences in Bosnia. In the book's prologue (1-2), he is approached by a man who promises to reveal to him the "Real Truth" of the war. Sacco consciously avoids the man and he is never mentioned again. Instead, Sacco choses to exemplify the facet of new journalism which Versaci finds most enduring: "the foregrounding of the individual perspective as an organizing consciousness" (111) except that Sacco relates many consciousnesses, and the result is less than ideally organized. Instead of an organizer, Sacco acts as mediator in Safe Area Gorazde, creating a vivid patchwork of wartime experience by many people he meets, including his principle guide Edin whose trips to Grebak to procure food for his family showcase tenacity in the face of starvation (136) and a gaggle of girls Sacco deems "The Silly Girls" who have one wish, for a pair of "genuine American Levi jeans" (56). They are ultimately disillusioned when the jeans they receive are "not originals" (193) however, displaying another facet of wartime fatigue. Elsewhere, Sacco uses his characters as narrators--sharing their war experiences which are then related to the reader in disturbing detail. When a man relates his terror crossing a river to safety on page 110, his story appears in quotations, as though he is speaking not only to Sacco but to reader, the author cutting back to the man in the narrative's present tense as he stares straight off the page (111), continuously reminding us that we are viewing this account from one subjective consciousness, not from a journalist intent on applying his own bias. Such is the success of Sacco's new journalistic graphic storytelling. By the time the author is chastised for taking interest in Bosnia by a local who asks, "Why you come, money?" (192) the reader knows that Sacco is instead embedded in the war-ravaged country to bear witness; indeed the people he has seen speak very much for themselves.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Review
*by お***A on 30 October 2010*

コミックジャーナリズムという概念が気になって読んでみました。全編を通じて暗さと重さを感じる作品ですが、ところどころ、作者が見つけたささやかなおもしろみのようなものも伝わって、そういう部分にはコミックならではの柔らかさを感じました。基本的には救いがたい世界が描かれた重苦しい作品です。それでも、終わりまで一気に読みました。ジャーナリズムとしてどうかについてはよくわかりません。

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Review
*by I***O on 11 February 2016*

Texto original en inglés, todo un imprescindible de la obra de Sacco. No sólo se aprende sobre la guerra de los valcanes sino también sobre sus consecuencias.

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