Graphic Embodiments (eBook, PDF)

Perspectives on Health and Embodiment in Graphic Narratives
Redaktion: Lisa DeTora, DeTora; Jodi Cressman, Cressman

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Graphic narratives' singular capacity to representhuman embodimentComics and other graphic narrativespowerfully represent embodied experiences that are difficult to express inlanguage. A group of authors from various countries and disciplines explore theunique capacity of graphic narratives to represent human embodiment as well asthe relation of human bodies to the worlds they inhabit. Using works fromillustrated scientific texts to contemporary comics across national traditions,we discover how the graphic narrative can shed new light on everydayexperiences. Essays examine topics that are easily recognized as anchored in thebody as well as experiences like migration and concepts like environmental degradationand compassion that emanate from or impact on our embodied states.Graphic Embodiments is of interest toscholars and students across various interdisciplinary fields including comicsstudies, gender and sexuality studies, visual and cultural studies, disabilitystudies and health and medical humanities.Contributors:Frederick Luis Aldama (Ohio State University), Jodi Cressman (DominicanUniversity), Lisa DeTora (Hofstra University), KJ Dykstra (University ofManitoba), Antonio J. Ferraro (Ohio State University), Carl Fisher (CaliforniaState University at Long Beach), Barbara Grning (University of Milan Bicocca),Jordana Greenblat (York University), Alison Halsall (York University), MichaelJ. Klein (James Madison University), Jeannie Ludlow (Eastern IllinoisUniversity), Lauren Rizzuto (Tufts University), Evelyn Rogers (MoorparkCollege), Shreya Sengai (Northeastern University)This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content).

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Universitaire Pers Leuven
• Seitenzahl: 211
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9789461663757
• Artikelnr.: 72475242

Autorenporträt

Lisa DeTora is Associate Professor and Director of STEM Writing at Hofstra University in Hempstead NY. Jodi Cressman is Professor and Chairperson of English at Dominican University in River Forest IL.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction Jodi Cressman and Lisa DeTora
PART 1. MAKING SENSE OF EMBODIMENT
The Embodied Witness of Graphic Pathology Jodi Cressman
Embodying the Mind: Social Metacognition in Graphic Medical Narratives Carl
Fisher
Embodiments of Virtue: Depiction of Caste in Popular Indian Comics and
Graphic Novels Shreya Sangai
Graphic Experiences of Immigration, Migration, and Diaspora: Shaun Tan's
The Arrival and Matt Huynh's Interactive Graphic Adaptation of Nam Le's
"The Boat" Alison Halsall
Body Talk: A Cross-Disciplinary Course on Embodiment and Graphic Memoir
Michael J. Klein
PART 2. EMPIRICAL PROBLEMATICS
Women's Gazes and Non-Newtonian Embodiment in Scientific Graphic Biography
Lisa DeTora
Sexology and/as Pornography: Considering the Sexologist's Desiring Gaze
through Forberg and Avril's De Figuris Veneris KJ Dykstra
Spatializing Women's Bodies in Italian Comics: A Gender-Sociological
Perspective Barbara Grüning
Mother Nature, "She's a Bitch": Maternity and Ecofeminism in This One
Summer Lauren Rizzuto
PART 3. EMBODIED CONDITIONS
"A Thin Line Between the Inside and the Outside": HIV and Graphic Life
Writing Jordana Greenblatt
The Price of an Ending: Reading Graphic Embodiment in Cancer Vixen Antonio
J. Ferraro
Voiceless Bodies: Drawing Autism and Depression in Bef's Maria Speaks
Radmila Lale Stefkova
Full Bleed: The Graphic Period at the End of the Menstrual Narrative
Jeannie Ludlow
Afterword Frederick Luis Aldama
Works Cited Contributors Index