Frederik Byrn Køhlert

Serial Selves

Identity and Representation in Autobiographical Comics

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Produktbeschreibung

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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. März 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9780813592299
• ISBN-10: 0813592291
• Artikelnr.: 55392689

Autorenporträt

FREDERIK BYRN KØHLERT is a lecturer in the School of Art, Media, and American Studies at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, United Kingdom. He is the author of The Chicago Literary Experience: Writing the City, 1893-1953.  

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Acknowledgments
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          Young, Queer, and Female: 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
Notes
Bibliography
Index