Serial selves : identity and representation in autobiographical comics /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Køhlert, Frederik Byrn, author.
Imprint:	New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2019]
Description:	1 online resource : illustrations
Language:	English
Subject:	Autobiographical comic books, strips, etc -- History and criticism. Self-perception in art. Narrative art -- Themes, motives. Autobiographical comic books, strips, etc. Narrative art -- Themes, motives. Self-perception in art. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12485386

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ISBN:	9780813592282 0813592283 0813592291 9780813592299 9780813592299 9780813592251 0813592259
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-221) and index. Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 27, 2019).
Summary:	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. 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.
Other form:	Print version: Køhlert, Frederik Byrn. Serial selves. New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2019]

Table of Contents:

Frontmatter
Contents
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. Queer as Style: 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
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author

Serial selves : identity and representation in autobiographical comics /

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