Show me where it hurts : manifesting illness and impairment in graphic pathography / Monica Chiu.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chiu, Monica, 1965- author.

Series:

Graphic medicine

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Graphic medicine (Comic books)--History and criticism.

Graphic medicine (Comic books).

Genre:

Comics criticism.

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

183 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2024]

Summary:

"Explores graphic pathography, long-form comics by and about subjects who suffer from disease or are impaired, and how it improves various negatively affected corporeal states through hand-drawn images"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction : making illness and impairment manifest

Graphic genesis and the somatic text : Davison's The spiral cage

Facing cancer, the face of cancer : beauty, health, and affect in Marchetto's Cancer vixen and Ann Tenna

Aging by frames : thready lines, haptic images, and institutions of care in Chast's Can't we talk about something more pleasant? and Farmer's Special exits

Hospital waiting rooms as medicine's sedimented spaces : Ware's Jimmy Corrigan and Potts's Good eggs

Graphting and the model minority in Chong and Webber's Dancing after TEN

Vital viruses : animating herpes, pathologizing whiteness in Dahl's Monsters and Schulz's Sick

Conclusion : uncharted; graphic medicine by medical interns

Coda : the absent presence of race; racial essentialism and graphic pathology.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780271096827

0271096829

OCLC:

1399530464

Publisher Number:

90103202073