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Graphic Women: Life Narrative and Contemporary Comics
Hillary L. Chute
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Description for Graphic Women: Life Narrative and Contemporary Comics
Hardback. Series: Gender and Culture Series. Num Pages: 316 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: AKLC; JFSJ1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 28. Weight in Grams: 454.
Some of the most acclaimed books of the twenty-first century are autobiographical comics by women. Aline Kominsky-Crumb is a pioneer of the autobiographical form, showing women's everyday lives, especially through the lens of the body. Phoebe Gloeckner places teenage sexuality at the center of her work, while Lynda Barry uses collage and the empty spaces between frames to capture the process of memory. Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis experiments with visual witness to frame her personal and historical narrative, and Alison Bechdel's Fun Home meticulously incorporates family documents by hand to re-present the author's past. These five cartoonists move the art ... Read more
Some of the most acclaimed books of the twenty-first century are autobiographical comics by women. Aline Kominsky-Crumb is a pioneer of the autobiographical form, showing women's everyday lives, especially through the lens of the body. Phoebe Gloeckner places teenage sexuality at the center of her work, while Lynda Barry uses collage and the empty spaces between frames to capture the process of memory. Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis experiments with visual witness to frame her personal and historical narrative, and Alison Bechdel's Fun Home meticulously incorporates family documents by hand to re-present the author's past. These five cartoonists move the art ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
316
Condition
New
Series
Gender and Culture Series
Number of Pages
316
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231150620
SKU
V9780231150620
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About Hillary L. Chute
Hillary L. Chute is Neubauer Family Assistant Professor in the English Department at the University of Chicago. Previously a Junior Fellow in literature in the Society of Fellows at Harvard University, her work has appeared in PMLA, Modern Fiction Studies, Twentieth-Century Literature, and Women's Studies Quarterly, among others. She is associate editor of Art Spiegelman's MetaMaus and has written about ... Read more
Reviews for Graphic Women: Life Narrative and Contemporary Comics
Scholarly and fascinating.
Colette Bancroft St. Petersburg Times The graphic novel industry isn't a boys club. Time Out Chicago Graphic Women is a text that will appeal to anyone with an interest in contemporary women's literature and trauma studies, as well as those with a budding or established interest in the rich world of comics studies.
Tahneer Oksman ... Read more
Colette Bancroft St. Petersburg Times The graphic novel industry isn't a boys club. Time Out Chicago Graphic Women is a text that will appeal to anyone with an interest in contemporary women's literature and trauma studies, as well as those with a budding or established interest in the rich world of comics studies.
Tahneer Oksman ... Read more