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Disability in comic books and graphic narratives /

Disability in Comic Books and Graphic Narratives invites readers to consider both canonical and alternative graphic representations of disability. Some chapters focus on comic superheroes, from lesser-known protagonists like Cyborg and Helen Killer to classics such as Batgirl and Batman; many more e...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Foss, Chris, 1963- (Editor ), Gray, Jonathan W. (Editor ), Whalen, Zach, 1979- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Colección:Literary disability studies.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; Foreword by Rosemarie Garland-Thomson; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: From Feats of Clay to Narrative Prose/thesis; 1 Mutable Articulations: Disability Rhetorics and the Comics Medium; 2 "When you have no voice, you don't exist"?: Envisioning Disability in David Small's Stitches; 3 The Hidden Architecture of Disability: Chris Ware's Building Stories; 4 Standing Orders: Oracle, Disability, and Retconning; 5 Drawing Disability: Superman, Huntington's, and the Comic Form in It's a Bird ...
  • 6 Reading in Pictures: Re-visioning Autism and Literature through the Medium of Manga7 Graphic Violence in Word and Image: Reimagining Closure in The Ride Together; 8 "Why Couldn't You Let Me Die?": Cyborg, Social Death, and Narratives of Black Disability; 9 "You Only Need Three Senses for This": The Disruptive Potentiality of Cyborg Helen Keller; 10 Cripping the Bat: Troubling Images of Batman; 11 Breaking Up [at/with] Illness Narratives; 12 Thinking through Thea: Alison Bechdel's Representations of Disability; Index.