Disability in Comic Books and Graphic Narratives [electronic resource] /
Foss, C.editor.
Gray, J.editor.
Whalen, Zach.editor.
Disability in Comic Books and Graphic Narratives invites readers to consider both canonical and alternative graphic representations of disability. Some chapters focus on comic superheroes, from lesser-known protagonists like Cyborg and Helen Killer to classics such as Batgirl and Batman; many more explore the amazing range of graphic narratives revolving around disability, covering famous names such as Alison Bechdel and Chris Ware, as well as less familiar artists like Keiko Tobe and Georgia Webber. The volume also offers a broad spectrum of represented disabilities: amputation, autism, blindness, deafness, depression, Huntington's, multiple sclerosis, obsessive-compulsive disorder, speech impairment, and spinal injury. A number of the essays collected here show how comics continue to implicate themselves in the objectification and marginalization of persons with disabilities, perpetuating stale stereotypes and stigmas. At the same time, others stress how this medium simultaneously offers unique potential for transforming our understanding of disability in truly profound ways.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
Disability in Comic Books and Graphic Narratives invites readers to consider both canonical and alternative graphic representations of disability. Some chapters focus on comic superheroes, from lesser-known protagonists like Cyborg and Helen Killer to classics such as Batgirl and Batman; many more explore the amazing range of graphic narratives revolving around disability, covering famous names such as Alison Bechdel and Chris Ware, as well as less familiar artists like Keiko Tobe and Georgia Webber. The volume also offers a broad spectrum of represented disabilities: amputation, autism, blindness, deafness, depression, Huntington's, multiple sclerosis, obsessive-compulsive disorder, speech impairment, and spinal injury. A number of the essays collected here show how comics continue to implicate themselves in the objectification and marginalization of persons with disabilities, perpetuating stale stereotypes and stigmas. At the same time, others stress how this medium simultaneously offers unique potential for transforming our understanding of disability in truly profound ways.
Machine generated contents note: -- Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Foreword; Rosemarie Garland-Thomson1. Introduction: From Feats of Clay to Narrative Prose/thesis; Zach Whalen, Chris Foss, and Jonathan W. Gray2. Mutable Articulations: Disability Rhetorics and the Comics Medium; Jay Dolmage and Dale Jacobs3. 'when you have no voice, you don't exist'? Envisioning Disability in David Small's Stitches; Christina Maria Koch4. The Hidden Architecture of Disability: Chris Ware's Building Stories; Todd A. Comer5. Standing Orders: Oracle, Disability, and Retconning; Jose; Alaniz6. Drawing Disability: Superman, Huntington's, and the Comic Form in It's a Bird...; Mariah Crilley7. Reading in Pictures: Re-Visioning Autism and Literature through the Medium of Manga; Chris Foss8. Graphic Violence in Word and Image: Re-Imagining Closure in The Ride Together; Shannon Walters9. 'Why Couldn't You Let Me Die?': Cyborg, Social Death, and Narratives of Disability; Jonathan W. Gray10. 'You Only Need Three Senses for This': The Disruptive Potentiality of Cyborg Helen Keller; Laurie Ann Carlson11. Cripping the Bat: Troubling Images of Batman; Daniel Preston12. Breaking Up [at/with] Illness Narratives; Kristen Gay13. Thinking through Thea: Alison Bechdel's Representations of Disability; Margaret GalvanIndex.
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