Comic art and feminism in the Baltic Sea region : transnational perspectives / edited by Kristy Beers Fagersten [and three others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Beers Fägersten, Kristy, editor.

Series:

Routledge focus on gender, sexuality and comics.

Gender, Sexuality and Comics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Comic books, strips, etc--Social aspects.

Comic books, strips, etc.

Women and literature--Baltic Sea Region.

Women and literature.

Feminism in literature.

Literature and transnationalism.

Literature and society--Baltic Sea Region.

Literature and society.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (273 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York, New York : Routledge, [2021]

Summary:

This edited collection explores how the relationship between comic art and feminism has been shaped by global, transnational, and local trends, curating analyses of multinational comic art that encompass themes of gender, sexuality, power, vulnerability, assault, abuse, taboo, and trauma. The chapters illuminate in turn the defining features of the aesthetics, materiality, and thematic content of their source material often expressed with humorous undertones of self-reflection or social criticism as well as recurring strategies of visualising and narrating female experiences. Broadening the research perspective of feminist comics to include national comics cultures peripheral to the cultural centers of Anglo-American, Franco-Belgian, and Japanese comics, the anthology explores how the dominant narrative or history of canonical works can be challenged or deconstructed by local histories of comics and feminism and their transnational connections, and how local histories complement or challenge the current understanding of the relationship between feminism and comic art. This is an essential collection for scholars and students in comics studies, women and gender studies, media studies, and literature.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Series Information

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

Figures

Contributors

Acknowledgements

1 Feminist Comics: An expanding Field

Introduction

An Expanding Historical Context: Feminist Comic Art in Sweden and Finland

An Expanding Geographical Perspective: Feminist Comic Art in the Baltic Sea Region

An Expanding Collaborative Landscape: Feminist Comic Art Activity in the Baltic Sea Region

Comic Art and Feminism in the Baltic Sea Region: Transnational Perspectives

Notes

References

Part I Swedish Feminist Comics Artists

2 Swedish Feminist Comics and Cartoons at the Turn of the Millennium: Joanna Rubin Dranger and åsa Grennvall (schagerström)

Background: The Feminist Context

Joanna Rubin Dranger

The Feminist Superhero "Fittflickan"

Miss Remarkable &amp

Her Career

Åsa Grennvall (Åsa Schagerström)

Fanzines

Violence Against Women

Conclusion

3 A Woman's Place (in the Panel): Positioning and Framing in Comics by Nina Hemmingsson and Lotta Sjöberg

Nina Hemmingsson and Lotta Sjöberg

The Single-Panel Comic

Theories of Positioning and Framing

Positioning Theory

Framing Theory

Analysis

Nina Hemmingsson

Lotta Sjöberg

Humour As Visual and Interactional Incongruity

A Woman's Place: Discussion

Part II Gender, Sex, and Sexuality in German-Language Comics

4 A Brief History of Girlsplaining?: Reading Klengel, Patu, and Schrupp With Strömquist. Or: Reflecting visualities of Gender and Feminism in German-Language Comics

Contemporary German-Language Comics on Feminism and the Influence of Liv Strömquist's Works

"HIDDEN in Our Culture" - Vulvas

"maybe the Thinker COULD Look Like This" - Art Quotations.

"HAHA Just Kidding!!" - Humour

5 "What's in a Name?": Anke Feuchtenberger's Roses and the Mythic Methodologies of Her Feminist Comic Art

Anke Feuchtenberger and German Comics After 1989

The Myths and Myth-Making Processes of Ideology

Feuchtenberger's Myth and Artificial Myth "Rosen" and "No Roses"

Conclusion: Feuchtenberger's Comics Semiotics

6 For Sex-Positivity?: Potential and Limits of Representing Sex and Sexuality in Ulli Lust's Comics Across Genres

Ulli Lust As a Comics Artist

Thinking Sex With Sex-Positive Feminists

Pornographic Visions of Pleasure and Fantasy

Autobiographical Perspectives On Sexual Agency and Liberation

Observations of Sexual Diversity in Reportage

Part III Non-Binary and Queer Expression in Comics

7 Strategies of Ambiguity: Non-Binary Figurations in Non-Binary-german-Language Comics

Narratology, Semiotics, and Queer-Feminism in Comic Studies

Comic Theory: Is There a Political Aesthetic of Comics?

Strategies of Combining, Avoiding, Fragmentation, and Overlapping: Analysis

Combining

Avoiding

Fragmentation and Overlapping

Ambiguous Focalisation: "Hure h" By Anke Feuchtenberger and Kathrin De Vries

Hure H In-Between

Unambiguous Focalisation

8 Feminist and Queer Aesthetics in Tove Jansson's Moomin Comics

Gender and Sexuality in the Moomin Comic Strip

Moomin's Chosen Families

Moominmamma's Emancipation

Moomin Masculinities and Femininities

Part IV Addressing Violence in Finnish Comics.

9 Feminist Education and Empowerment: The Individual and the Collective in Emmi Nieminen and Johanna Vehkoo's Comic On Online Violence

Feminist Comics and Comics Journalism in Finland

Formations of the Individual and the Collective

The Targets of Hate: Individual Case Narratives

The Situated Knowledge of the Creator-Narrator-Characters

The Haters As Contrast to the Collective of Women

The Collective Risen above the Problem

The Inclusion of the Reader

10 The Narrative Complexity of Showing and Telling Sexual Harassment and Violence in Kati Kovács's Comics

Kovács's Comics in the Finnish Comics Scene

Sexual Violence in Comics and the Challenge of Representation

Naïve Protagonist, Experienced Narrator? - Narrative Tensions and the Discrepancy of Knowledge

Unreliable Narrator in the Interaction Between Words and Images

Part V Memoir and Remembering in Polish and Russian Comics

11 "After all, We Must be Our Own Heroines": The Power of Feminism, Fun Home, and Form in Wanda Hagedorn's Graphic Memoir Totalnie Nie Nostalgia: Memuar

The Paradoxes of Feminism in Communist Poland

The Past Is Present: Fun Home and the Power of the Graphic Memoir Genre

(Don't) Look at Me: The Body and the Self

Drawing Trauma and the "Ethics of the Image"

12 Staring Back at History: Varvara Pomidor and Russian Comics

Varvara Pomidor's Pravda and Late Soviet History

Conclusion: "I of Course Wanted a 'Lady's' Coat"

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-00-303940-5

1-003-03940-5

1-000-40459-5

9781003039402

OCLC:

1249471180