Abstract
<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>Responding to the question, “What can a multi-genre approach to historiography contribute to political inquiry?,” the book’s chapters juxtapose macropolitical narratives—official geopolitical, state-sponsored history—with the micropolitical expressions of those who have been subjected to a continuum running from neglect, through dispossession to genocide. With a focus on artistic media, which turn abstractions into personal and interpersonal dramas, the politically attuned historiographies included in the book’s investigation are in literature, film, painting, music, gardening, architecture, and comic books. Following the opening chapter, a cinematic historiography whose main object of analysis is Christopher Nolan’s film Oppenheimer, the chapter sequence continues with diverse historiographic inquiries: sonic strategies in books and films in Chapter 2, a combination of media genres that treat oceans in Chapter 3, gardens in Chapter 4, architecture in Chapter 5, and comics/graphic novels (and other visual media) in Chapter 6.</jats:p>