Research Catalog

Title

Graphic subjects : critical essays on autobiography and graphic novels / edited by Michael A. Chaney.

Publication

Madison : The University of Wisconsin Press, c2011.

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Details

Additional Authors

Chaney, Michael A.

Description

ix, 339 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

In Graphic Subjects, Michael A. Chaney brings together a lively mix of scholars to examine the use of autobiography within graphic novels.... These essays, accompanied by visual examples, illuminate the new horizons that illustrated autobiographical narrative creates -- from cover.

Series Statement

Wisconsin studies in autobiography

Uniform Title

• Project Muse UPCC books
• Wisconsin studies in autobiography

Subjects

• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Autobiography > Authorship
• Autobiography in literature
• Graphic novels

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Reading comics : Art Spiegelman on CD-ROM / Paul John Eakin -- Mourning and postmemory / Marianne Hirsch -- Art Spiegelman and autobioGRAPHICal re-vision / Erin McGlothlin -- Breakdowns and breakthroughs : looking for art in young Spiegelman / Bella Brodzki -- Human rights and comics : autobiographical avatars, crisis witnessing, and transnational rescue networks / Sidonie Smith -- Picturing oneself as another / Linda Haverty Rugg -- Dominique Goblet : the list principle and the meaning of form / Jan Baetens -- The animal witness of the Rwandan genocide / Michael A. Chaney -- Autobiography as discovery in Epileptic / Stephen E. Tabachnick -- Manga and the end of Japan's 1960s / James Dorsey -- Autographic disclosures and genealogies of desire in Alison Bechdel's Fun home / Julia Watson -- Witnessing Persepolis : comics, trauma, and childhood testimony / Leigh Gilmore -- A story told in flashback : remediating Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis / Nima Naghibi -- Autobiography : the process negates the term / Phoebe Gloeckner -- Up from surgery : the politics of self-representation in women's graphic memoirs of illness / Theresa Tensuan -- The gutter effect in Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's A dialogue on love / Carolyn Williams -- Photau(gyno)graphy : the work of Joanne Leonard / Domna C. Stanton -- The diary comic / Isaac Cates -- Justin Green : autobiography meets the comics / Joseph Witek -- Narrative worldmaking in graphic life writing / David Herman -- In praise of Joseph Witek's Comic books as history / Ian Gordon -- Selective mutual reinforcement in the comics of Chester Brown, Joe Matt, and Seth / Bart Beaty -- Keeping it (hyper)real : autobiographical fiction in 3-D / Damian Duffy -- Fictional auto/biography and graphic lives in Watchmen / Victoria A. Elmwood -- American born Chinese : challenging the stereotype / Rocío G. David -- Materializing memory : Lynda Barry's One hundred demons / Hillary Chute -- Reflections on Lynda Barry / Andrea A. Lunsford.

ISBN

• 9780299251048 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0299251047 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9780299251031 (e-book)
• 0299251039 (e-book)

LCCN

^^2010038904

OCLC

• 665064402
• SCSB-11065551

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library