Drawing from life
Subtitle: memory and subjectivity in comic art
By: edited by Jane Tolmie
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9781617039058
Subjects: Autobiography; Biography as a literary form; Memory in literature; Authorship; Technique; Cartooning; Comic books, strips
Other titles: Memory and subjectivity in comic art
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : If a body meets a body  -- Jane Tolmie; title: Allusive confession : the literary lives of Alison Bechdel's Fun home  -- David M. Ball; title: What is experience? : selves and texts in the comic autobiographies of Alison Bechdel and Lynda Berry  -- Yaël Schlick; title: Animal subjects of the graphic novel  -- Michael A. Chaney; title: Uncaging and reframing Martin Vaughn-James's The cage  -- Jan Baetens; title: Comics as non-sequential art : Chris Ware's Joseph Cornell  -- Benjamin Widiss; title: Yukiko's Spinach and the Nouvelle manga aesthetic  -- Christopher Bush; title: Memory, signal, and noise in the collaborations of Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean  -- Isaac Cates; title: The graphic memoir in a state of exception : transformations of the personal in Art Spiegelman's In the shadow of no towers  -- Lopamudra Basu; title: 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  -- Davida Pines; title: You must look at the personal clutter : diaristic indulgence, female adolescence, and feminist autobiography  -- Alisia Chase; title: A female prophet? : authority and inheritance in Marjane Satrapi  -- Rachel Trousdale; title: Showing the voice of the body : Brian Fies's Mom's cancer, the graphic illness memoir, and the narrative of hope -- Sharon O'Brien.