Kohlert Frederik Byrn Kohlert

Serial Selves (eBook, ePUB)

Identity and Representation in Autobiographical Comics

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Autobiography is one of the most dynamic and quickly-growing genres in contemporary comics and graphic narratives. In Serial Selves, Frederik Byrn K hlert examines the genre s potential for representing lives and perspectives that have been socially marginalized or excluded. With a focus on the comics form s ability to produce alternative and challenging autobiographical narratives, thematic chapters investigate the work of artists writing from perspectives of marginality including gender, sexuality, disability, and race, as well as trauma. Interdisciplinary in scope and attuned to theories and methods from both literary and visual studies, the book provides detailed formal analysis to show that the highly personal and hand-drawn aesthetics of comics can help artists push against established narrative and visual conventions, and in the process invent new ways of seeing and being seen.As the first comparative study of how comics artists from a wide range of backgrounds use the form to write and draw themselves into cultural visibility, Serial Selves will be of interest to anyone interested in the current boom in autobiographical comics, as well as issues of representation in comics and visual culture more broadly.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 241
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. März 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780813592268
• Artikelnr.: 72345685

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