ABSTRACT
This chapter concentrates on the graphic narrative and the Waltz (film). In both texts of different styles, an attempt is made to share experiences of violence in the 1982 Sabra and Shatila massacre, from the perspective of various perpetrators and bystanders. The Sabra and Shatila massacre has been condemned by the United Nations as an act of genocide. In this chapter, the author discusses how ‘dark’ writing makes Folman’s shame visible and how Folman uses his shame as a tool to help him to re-orientate himself ethically as a perpetrator of violence as he shares this part of his experience with the reader/viewer. Graphic narratives also carve out the space between the text and reality through their formal qualities as they provide content cues about the process of coming to know in discrete panels.
