--- product_id: 3570451 title: "Safe Area Gorazde s/c" price: "€ 42.65" currency: EUR in_stock: true reviews_count: 12 url: https://www.desertcart.pt/products/3570451-safe-area-gorazde-s-c store_origin: PT region: Portugal --- # Safe Area Gorazde s/c **Price:** € 42.65 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Safe Area Gorazde s/c - **How much does it cost?** € 42.65 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.pt](https://www.desertcart.pt/products/3570451-safe-area-gorazde-s-c) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Safe Area Gorazde s/c [Sacco, Joe] on desertcart.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Safe Area Gorazde s/c Review: A New Journalistic Revelation--not for the faint of heart - 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: Absolutely Brilliant - I had a history teacher once require us to read a a few chapters of this book about 4-5 years ago. I was fascinated at the time but didn't read the entire book until recently. I decided to purchase it after hearing about a Bosnian patient of mine disliking a Croatian coworker. (I live in Utah - so I wouldn't ever classify us as culturally diverse, but the disdain this patient felt was almost palpable... a hatred that I could never quite understand) I remembered this book from my Eastern European class and thought that maybe I'd understand that conflict better if I read the entire thing. I was hooked from the start and finished it within a day. It was beautifully done. The artwork was mesmerizing. The words were simple, but piercing. I just kept thinking, over and over again, how these stories were taking place in my lifetime. While I was running around, playing dress up and tag with my friends... these people were dodging shells and fighting for their lives. If only more people were creative like this in their journalism! I couldn't get enough so I just ordered Palestine and Footnotes in Gaza. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #703,526 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #144 in Fantagraphics Comics & Graphic Novels #404 in Biographies & History Graphic Novels #463 in Educational & Nonfiction Graphic Novels | | Customer Reviews | 4.8 4.8 out of 5 stars (334) | | Dimensions | 7.5 x 0.6 x 10.1 inches | | Edition | Illustrated | | ISBN-10 | 1560974702 | | ISBN-13 | 978-1560974703 | | Item Weight | 1.55 pounds | | Language | English | | Part of Series | Safe Area Gorazde | | Print length | 240 pages | | Publication date | March 20, 2018 | | Publisher | Fantagraphics Books | ## Images ![Safe Area Gorazde s/c - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81zC-r5DdvL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A New Journalistic Revelation--not for the faint of heart *by K***R on March 29, 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. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Absolutely Brilliant *by D***Z on September 10, 2016* I had a history teacher once require us to read a a few chapters of this book about 4-5 years ago. I was fascinated at the time but didn't read the entire book until recently. I decided to purchase it after hearing about a Bosnian patient of mine disliking a Croatian coworker. (I live in Utah - so I wouldn't ever classify us as culturally diverse, but the disdain this patient felt was almost palpable... a hatred that I could never quite understand) I remembered this book from my Eastern European class and thought that maybe I'd understand that conflict better if I read the entire thing. I was hooked from the start and finished it within a day. It was beautifully done. The artwork was mesmerizing. The words were simple, but piercing. I just kept thinking, over and over again, how these stories were taking place in my lifetime. While I was running around, playing dress up and tag with my friends... these people were dodging shells and fighting for their lives. If only more people were creative like this in their journalism! I couldn't get enough so I just ordered Palestine and Footnotes in Gaza. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Journalism in the Form of a Graphic Novel - Really Well DOne! *by O***R on January 21, 2014* Joe Sacco is a creative force in the world, putting himself deep into conflict situations (Bosnia, Palestine), doing extensive research, and then documenting his investigations in the form of graphic novels. Sacco is an artist of the first rank. And brutally honest about situations for which the MSM has neither time nor the guts to honestly report. Thank you, Joe, for your work, which is both informative and entertaining on several levels. Each work stands up to multiple readings, and each reading reveals new glimpses into other worlds than our own safe and comfy one. HIghly recommended. 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