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Graphic subjects : critical essays on autobiography and graphic novels /

Some of the most noteworthy graphic novels and comic books of recent years have been entirely autobiographical. In Graphic Subjects, Michael A. Chaney brings together a lively mix of scholars to examine the use of autobiography within graphic novels, including such critically acclaimed examples as A...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Chaney, Michael A.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, ©2011.
Colección:Wisconsin studies in autobiography.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Part I: Art Spiegelman
  • 1. Reading Comics: Art Spiegelman on CD-ROM
  • 2. Mourning and Postmemory
  • 3. Art Spiegelman and AutobioGRAPHICal Re-Vision
  • 4. Breakdowns and Breakthroughs: Looking for Art in Young Spiegelman
  • Part II: The Global Scope of Autography
  • 5. Human Rights and Comics: Autobiographical Avatars, Crisis Witnessing, and Transnational Rescue Networks
  • 6. Picturing Oneself as Another
  • 7. Dominique Goblet: The List Principle and the Meaning of Form
  • 8. The Animal Witness of the Rwandan Genocide
  • 9. Autobiography as Discovery in Epileptic
  • 10. Manga and the End of Japan's 1960s
  • Part III: Visualizing Women's Life Writing
  • 11. Autographic Disclosures and Genealogies of Desire in Alison Bechdel's Fun Home
  • 12. Witnessing Persepolis: Comics, Trauma, and Childhood Testimony
  • 13. A Story Told in Flashback: Remediating Marjane Satrapis' Persepolis
  • 14. Autobiography: The Process Negates the Term
  • 15. Up from Surgery: The Politics of Self-Representation in Women's Graphic Memoirs of Illness
  • 16. The Gutter Effect in Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's A Dialogue on Love /
  • 17. Photau(gyno)graphy: The Work of Joanne Leonard
  • Part IV: Varieties of the Self
  • 18. The Diary Comic
  • 19. Justin Green: Autobiography Meets the Comics
  • 20. Narrative Worldmaking in Graphic Life Writing
  • 22. Selective Mutual Reinforcement in the Comics of Chester Brown, Joe Matt, and Seth
  • 21. In Praise of Joseph Witek's Comic Books as History
  • 23. Keeping it (Hyper)Real: Autobiographical Fiction in 3-D
  • 24. Fictional Auto/Biography and Graphic Lives in Watchmen
  • 25. American Born Chinese: Challenging the Stereotype
  • 26. Materializing Memory: Lynda Barry's One Hundred Demons
  • 27. Reflections on Lynda Barry
  • Contributors
  • Index.