Sugar, Spice, and the Not So Nice : Comics Picturing Girlhood / edited by Dona Pursall, Eva Van de Wiele.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wiele, Eva van de, editor.

Pursall, Dona, editor.

Series:

Studies in European comics and graphic novels

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Comic books, strips, etc--History and criticism.

Comic books, strips, etc.

Girls in comics.

Gender identity in comics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (colour) ;

Place of Publication:

Leuven : Leuven University Press, 2023.

Summary:

<strong>Girls, gender and identity in comics.</strong><em>Sugar, Spice, and the Not So Nice</em> offers an innovative, wide-ranging and geographically diverse book-length treatment of girlhood in comics. The various contributing authors and artists provide novel insights into established themes within comics studies, children's comics, graphic medicine and comics by and about refugees and marginalised ethnic or cultural groups. The book enriches traditional historical, narratological and aesthetic approaches to studying girlhood in comics with practice-based research, discussion and conversation. This re-examination of girls, gender and identity in comics connects with contemporary discourse on gender identity politics. Through examples from both within Europe, the anglophone world and beyond, and including visual essays alongside critical theory, the volume furthermore engages with new developments in contemporary comics scholarship. It will therefore appeal to students and scholars of childhood studies, comics scholars and creators, and those interested in addressing gender identity through the prism of comics.Contributors: Mel Gibson (Northumbria University), Martha Newbigging (Seneca College), María Porras Sánchez (Complutense University of Madrid), JoAnn Purcell (York University and Seneca College), Benoît Glaude (Ghent University/University of Louvain), Sylvain Lesage (University of Lille), Joan Ormrod (Manchester Metropolitan University), Aswathy Senan (The Research Collective Delhi), Michel De Dobbeleer (Ghent University), Sébastien Conard (KASK Ghent School of Arts and LUCA Brussels), Marine Berthiot (University of Edinburgh), Julia Round (Bournemouth University)Ebook available in Open Access.<br> This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content).

Contents:

'It's the girl!' : Comics, Professional Identity, Affection, Nostalgia and Embarrassment / Mel Gibson

Looking for Queerness / Martha Newbigging

Harrowing Rites of Passage : Refugee Girlhood in the Wake of Syrian Migrant Crisis / María Porras Sánchez

Comics, Caregiving and Crip Time / JoAnn Purcell

Discussing Gender in a Communist Comics Magazine : Corinne et Jeannot, 1970 / Sylvain Lesage

The Ambivalence of Girlhood and Motherhood in A Girl-and-Her-Dog Comics Series : Margot & Oscar Pluche, Sac à Puces / Benoît Glaude

Modernity, Aesthetics and the Active Female Body in Mirabelle (1960-1967) / Joan Ormrod

The Demon Girl of Malayali Comic Strips : The (Im)possibilities of Comic Imagination / Aswathy Senan

Reading Girl- and Womanhood in the Classic Flemish Family Comics Series Jommeke : A Conversation with Katrien De Graeve and Sara De Vuyst / Michel De Dobbeleer

Death and the Maiden : Some Notes Concerning Charlotte Salomon's Leben? oder Theater? / Sébastien Conard

Developing a Style of Her Own : Mophead by Selina Tusitala Marsh (2019) / Marine Berthiot

Conclusion / Eva Van de Wiele

Afterword: Picturing Girlhood / Julia Round.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

94-6166-498-2

94-6166-497-4

OCLC:

1371483675