"Suffering Sappho!"

Lesbian Content and Queer Female Characters in Comics
Herausgeber: Abate, Michelle Ann; Stamper, Christine N; Grice, Karly Marie

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the past place, current presence, and possible future status of lesbianism in comics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 122
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 257mm x 178mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9780367704377
• ISBN-10: 0367704374
• Artikelnr.: 62220466

Autorenporträt

Michelle Ann Abate is Professor of Literature for children and young adults at The Ohio State University. Karly Marie Grice is Assistant Professor of English Education at the University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire. Christine N. Stamper is independent scholar based in Michigan.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Michelle Ann Abate, Karly Marie Grice and Christine N. Stamper
1. Lovers, enemies, and friends: The complex and coded early history of
lesbian comic strip characters
Caitlin McGurk
2. A regressive formula of perversity: Wertham and the women of comics
Carol L. Tilley
3. Making space: Jennifer Camper, LGBTQ anthologies, and queer comics
communities
Margaret Galvan
4. Representations of same-sex relationships between female characters in
all-ages comics: Princess Princess Ever After and Lumberjanes
Erica Gillingham
5. Situating Cyberzone: Black lesbian identity in comics
Sheena C. Howard
6. Survival angst: Reading Hothead Paisan in the Trump era
Cynthia Barounis
7. "There is no such thing as a straight woman": Queer female
representations in South Asian graphic narratives
Poushali Bhadury
8. PoC, LGBTQ, and gender: The intersectionality of America Chavez
Laura M. Jiménez