Drawing from life : memory and subjectivity in comic art / edited by Jane Tolmie.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Tolmie, Jane.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Memory in literature.

Comic books, strips, etc--Authorship.

Comic books, strips, etc--Technique.

Biography as a literary form.

Cartooning--Technique.

Autobiography--Authorship.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxii, 300 pages) : illustrations (black and white)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Jackson, Mississippi : University Press of Mississippi, 2013.

Summary:

This study is about autobiography, semi-autobiography, fictionalised autobiography, memory, and self-narration in sequential art, or comics. The book engages with well-known figures such as Art Spiegelman, Marjane Satrapi, and Alison Bechdel; with cult-status figures such as Martin Vaughn James; and with lesser-known works by artists such as Frédéric Boilet. Negotiations between artist/writer/body and drawn/written/text raise questions of how comics construct identity, and are read and perceived, requiring a critical turn towards theorising the comics' viewer.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Introduction: If a Body Meet a Body

Allusive Confessions: The Literary Lives of Alison Bechdel's Fun Home

What Is an Experience?: Selves and Texts in the Comic Autobiographies of Alison Bechdel and Lynda Barry

Animal Subjects of the Graphic Novel

Uncaging and Reframing Martin Vaughn-James's The Cage

Comics as Non-Sequential Art: Chris Ware's Joseph Cornell

Yukiko's Spinach and the Nouvelle Manga Aesthetic

Memory, Signal, and Noise in the Collaborations of Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean

The Graphic Memoir in a State of Exception: Transformations of the Personal in Art Spiegelman's In the Shadow of No Towers

History, Memory, and Trauma: Confronting Dominant Interpretations of 9/11 in Alissa Torres's American Widow and Art Spiegelman's In the Shadow of No Towers

You Must Look at the Personal Clutter: Diaristic Indulgence, Female Adolescence, and Feminist Autobiography

A Female Prophet?: Authority and Inheritance in Marjane Satrapi

Showing the Voice of the Body: Brian Fies's Mom's Cancer, the Graphic Illness Memoir, and the Narrative of Hope

Contributors

Index

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

I

J

K

L

M

N

O

P

Q

R

S

T

V

W

Y.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-62103-990-0

1-61703-905-5

OCLC:

847763737