Graphic Women: Life Narrative and Contempoarary Comics: Life Narrative and Contemporary Comics - Rilegato

Chute, Hillary L.

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ISBN 10: 0231150628 ISBN 13: 9780231150620

Casa editrice: Columbia Univ Pr, 2010

Riassunto

Some of the most acclaimed books of the twenty-first century are autobiographical comics by women. Aline Kominsky-Crumb is a pioneer of the autobiographical form, showing women's everyday lives, especially through the lens of the body. Phoebe Gloeckner places teenage sexuality at the center of her work, while Lynda Barry uses collage and the empty spaces between frames to capture the process of memory. Marjane Satrapi'sPersepolis experiments with visual witness to frame her personal and historical narrative, and Alison Bechdel'sFun Home meticulously incorporates family documents by hand to re-present the author's past.

These five cartoonists move the art of autobiography and graphic storytelling in new directions, particularly through the depiction of sex, gender, and lived experience. Hillary L. Chute explores their verbal and visual techniques, which have transformed autobiographical narrative and contemporary comics. Through the interplay of words and images, and the counterpoint of presence and absence, they express difficult, even traumatic stories while engaging with the workings of memory. Intertwining aesthetics and politics, these women both rewrite and redesign the parameters of acceptable discourse.

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L'autore:

Hillary L. Chute is Neubauer Family Assistant Professor in the English Department at the University of Chicago. Previously a Junior Fellow in literature in the Society of Fellows at Harvard University, her work has appeared inPMLA, Modern Fiction Studies, Twentieth-Century Literature, andWomen's Studies Quarterly, among others. She is associate editor of Art Spiegelman'sMetaMaus and has written about comics and culture for venues including theVillage Voice and the Believer.

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Book by Chute Hillary L

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• Editore: Columbia Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0231150628
• ISBN 13: 9780231150620
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 297