Graphic Women

Life Narrative and Contemporary Comics

AvHillary L. Chute

Häftad, Engelska, 2010

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Beskrivning

Some of the most acclaimed books of the twenty-first century are autobiographical comics by women. Aline Kominsky-Crumb is a pioneer of the autobiographical form, showing women's everyday lives, especially through the lens of the body. Phoebe Gloeckner places teenage sexuality at the center of her work, while Lynda Barry uses collage and the empty spaces between frames to capture the process of memory. Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis experiments with visual witness to frame her personal and historical narrative, and Alison Bechdel's Fun Home meticulously incorporates family documents by hand to re-present the author's past. These five cartoonists move the art of autobiography and graphic storytelling in new directions, particularly through the depiction of sex, gender, and lived experience. Hillary L. Chute explores their verbal and visual techniques, which have transformed autobiographical narrative and contemporary comics. Through the interplay of words and images, and the counterpoint of presence and absence, they express difficult, even traumatic stories while engaging with the workings of memory.Intertwining aesthetics and politics, these women both rewrite and redesign the parameters of acceptable discourse.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2010-11-16
Mått:178 x 254 x 19 mm
Vikt:620 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Gender and Culture Series
Antal sidor:316
Förlag:Columbia University Press
ISBN:9780231150637

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Genusvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Hillary L. Chute is Neubauer Family Assistant Professor in the English Department at the University of Chicago. Previously a Junior Fellow in literature in the Society of Fellows at Harvard University, her work has appeared in PMLA, Modern Fiction Studies, Twentieth-Century Literature, and Women's Studies Quarterly, among others. She is associate editor of Art Spiegelman's MetaMaus and has written about comics and culture for venues including the Village Voice and the Believer.

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Scholarly and fascinating. -- Colette Bancroft St. Petersburg Times The graphic novel industry isn't a boys club. Time Out Chicago Graphic Women is a text that will appeal to anyone with an interest in contemporary women's literature and trauma studies, as well as those with a budding or established interest in the rich world of comics studies. -- Tahneer Oksman Contemporary Women's Writing An absorbing book written with dedication, impressive documentation, and a very sharp eye for detail. -- Mihaela Precup Biography ...an essential book for those who are interested in autobiography, visual studies and comics in general as it initiates a beginning in the study of women's graphic memoirs. -- Olga Michael Scadinavian Journal of Comic Art

Innehållsförteckning

Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: Women Comics 1. Scratching the Surface: "Ugly" Excess in Aline Kominsky-Crumb 2. "For All the Girls When They Have Grown": Phoebe Gloeckner's Ambivalent Images 3. Materializing Memory: Lynda Barry's One Hundred Demons 4. Graphic Narrative as Witness: Marjane Satrapi and the Texture of Retracing 5. Animating an Archive: Repetition and Regeneration in Alison Bechdel's Fun Home Notes Works Cited Index