Serial Selves : Identity and Representation in Autobiographical Comics /

Autobiography is one of the most dynamic and quickly-growing genres in contemporary comics and graphic narratives. In Serial Selves, Frederik Byrn Kohlert examines the genre's potential for representing lives and perspectives that have been socially marginalized or excluded. With a focus on the...

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Autor principal: Kohlert, Frederik Byrn (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2019]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Self-perception in art.
Narrative art > Themes, motives.
Autobiographical comic books, strips, etc.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
Art narratif > Themes, motifs.
Perception de soi dans l'art.
Bandes dessinees autobiographiques > Histoire et critique.
Autobiographical comic books, strips, etc. > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction: Serial Selves
  • 1. Female Grotesques: The Unruly Comics of Julie Doucet
  • 2. Working It Through: Trauma and Visuality in the Comics of Phoebe Gloeckner
  • 3. Queer as Style: Ariel Schrag's High School Comic Chronicles
  • 4. Staring at Comics: Disability and the Body in Al Davison's The Spiral Cage
  • 5. Stereotyping the Self: Toufic El Rassi's Arab in America
  • Conclusion: Making an Issue of Representation
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • About the Author

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