Graphic subjects : critical essays on autobiography and graphic novels
Some of the most noteworthy graphic novels and comic books of recent years have been entirely autobiographical. In Graphic Subjects , Michael A. Chaney brings together a lively mix of scholars to examine the use of autobiography within graphic novels, including such critically acclaimed examples as...
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Madison, Wis
University of Wisconsin Press
2011
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| Edition: | 1 |
| Series: | Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography |
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| ISBN: | 9780299251048, 0299251047 |
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Table of Contents:
- Index 27. Reflections on Lynda Barry Contributors 26. Materializing Memory: Lynda Barry's One Hundred Demons 24. Fictional Auto/Biography and Graphic Lives in Watchmen 25. American Born Chinese: Challenging the Stereotype 23. Keeping it (Hyper) Real: Autobiographical Fiction in 3-D 21. In Praise of Joseph Witek’s Comic Books as History 22. Selective Mutual Reinforcement in the Comics of Chester Brown, Joe Matt, and Seth 19. Justin Green: Autobiography Meets the Comics 20. Narrative Worldmaking in Graphic Life Writing 17. Photau(gyno)graphy: The Work of Joanne Leonard PART IV: Varieties of the Self 18. The Diary Comic 16. The Gutter Effect in Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s A Dialogue on Love 15. Up from Surgery: The Politics of Self-Representation in Women’s Graphic Memoirs of Illness 13. A Story Told in Flashback: Remediating Marjane Strapi's Persepolis 14. Autobiography: The Process Negates the Term 12. Witnessing Persepolis: Comics, Trauma, and Childhood Testimony 10. Manga and the End of Japan’s 1960s PART III. Visualizing Women's Life Writing 11. Autographic Disclosures and Genealogies of Desire in Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home 9. Autobiography as Discovery in Epileptic 6. Picturing Oneself as Another 7. Dominique Goblet: The List Principle and the Meaning of Form 8. The Animal Witness of the Rwandan Genocide 5. Human Rights and Comics: Autobiographical Avatars, Crisis Witnessing, and Transnational Rescue Networks PART II. The Global Scope of Autography 4. Breakdowns and Breakthroughs: Looking for Art in Young Spiegelman 2. Mourning and Postmemory 3. Art Spiegelman and AutobioGRAPHICal Re-Vision 1. Reading Comics: Art Spiegelman on CD-Rom Introduction PART I. Art Spiegelman Contents Acknowledgments Cover Title Page Copyright
- Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgment -- Introduction -- Part I: Art Spiegelman -- 1. Reading Comics: Art Spiegelman on CD-ROM -- 2. Mourning and Postmemory -- 3. Art Spiegelman and AutobioGRAPHICal Re-Vision -- 4. Breakdowns and Breakthroughs: Looking for Art in Young Spiegelman -- Part II: The Global Scope of Autography -- 5. Human Rights and Comics: Autobiographical Avatars, Crisis Witnessing, and Transnational Rescue Networks -- 6. Picturing Oneself as Another -- 7. Dominique Goblet: The List Principle and the Meaning of Form -- 8. The Animal Witness of the Rwandan Genocide -- 9. Autobiography as Discovery in Epileptic -- 10. Manga and the End of Japan's 1960s -- Part III: Visualizing Women's Life Writing -- 11. Autographic Disclosures and Genealogies of Desire in Alison Bechdel's Fun Home -- 12. Witnessing Persepolis: Comics, Trauma, and Childhood Testimony -- 13. A Story Told in Flashback: Remediating Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis -- 14. Autobiography: The Process Negates the Term -- 15. Up from Surgery: The Politics of Self-Representation in Women's Graphic Memoirs of Illness -- 16. The Gutter Effect in Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's A Dialogueon Love / -- 17. Photau(gyno)graphy: The Work of Joanne Leonard -- Part IV: Varieties of the Self -- 18. The Diary Comic -- 19. Justin Green: Autobiography Meets the Comics -- 20. Narrative Worldmaking in Graphic Life Writing -- 22. Selective Mutual Reinforcement in the Comics of Chester Brown, Joe Matt, and Seth -- 21. In Praise of Joseph Witek's Comic Books as History -- 23. Keeping it (Hyper)Real: Autobiographical Fiction in 3-D -- 24. Fictional Auto/Biography and Graphic Lives in Watchmen -- 25. American Born Chinese: Challenging the Stereotype -- 26. Materializing Memory: Lynda Barry's One Hundred Demons -- 27. Reflections on Lynda Barry -- Contributors -- Index