Shiamin Kwa

Perfect Copies

Reproduction and the Contemporary Comic

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Perfect Copies examines comics as a literary art form that is explicitly made for reproduction. What does mechanical reproduction have to do with ideas of family and biological reproduction? Five chapters closely examine the connections between two types of reproduction through various works by five exciting contemporary comics artists.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 196
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Januar 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 154mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 540g
• ISBN-13: 9781978826533
• ISBN-10: 1978826532
• Artikelnr.: 63733171

Autorenporträt

SHIAMIN KWA is an associate professor of East Asian languages and cultures and comparative literature at Bryn Mawr College. She is the author of Regarding Frames: Thinking with Comics in the Twenty-first Century for the Comics Studies (RIT Press, 2020).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1          The People Upstairs: Space, Memory, and the Queered Family in
My Favorite Thing Is Monsters
2          Reach Out and Touch Someone: The Haptic Dreams of Gareth Brookes
3          Phantom Threads: Seeing in the Dark and Conor Stechschulte
4          If You See Something Say Something: Nick Drnaso’s Sabrina
5          There is a Monster in My Closet: Brecht Evens’s Panther
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index