Graphic women
Subtitle: life narrative and contemporary comics
By: Hillary L. Chute.
Series: Gender and culture
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 297
ISBN-13: 9780231150620; 9780231521574
Subjects: Comic books, strips, etc. -- History and criticism; Women in literature; Women cartoonists; Women in art
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Women, comics, and the risk of representation; title: Scratching the surface: 'ugly' excess in Aline Kominsky-Crumb; title: 'For all the girls when they have grown': Phoebe Gloeckner's ambivalent images; title: Materializing memory: Lynda Barry's One hundred demons; title: Graphic narrative as witness: Marjane Satrapi and the texture of retracing; title: Animating an archive: repetition and regeneration in Alison Bechdel's Fun home.