03462nam 2200529 450 991046782500332120211103222237.00-8135-9228-310.36019/9780813592282(CKB)4970000000109314(MiAaPQ)EBC5880426(DE-B1597)528534(OCoLC)1100457948(DE-B1597)9780813592282(Au-PeEL)EBL5880426(EXLCZ)99497000000010931420190927d2019 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierSerial selves identity and representation in autobiographical comics /Federick Byrn KøhlertNew Brunswick, New Jersey :Rutgers University Press,[2019]©20191 online resource (v, 231 pages) illustrations0-8135-9225-9 0-8135-9229-1 Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-221) and index.Front matter --Contents --Introduction: Serial Selves --1. Female Grotesques: The Unruly Comics of Julie Doucet --2. Working It Through: Trauma and Visuality in the Comics of Phoebe Gloeckner --3. Queer as Style: Ariel Schrag's High School Comic Chronicles --4. Staring at Comics: Disability and the Body in Al Davison's The Spiral Cage --5. Stereotyping the Self: Toufic El Rassi's Arab in America --Conclusion: Making an Issue of Representation --Acknowledgments --Notes --Bibliography --Index --About the AuthorAutobiography is one of the most dynamic and quickly-growing genres in contemporary comics and graphic narratives. In Serial Selves, Frederik Byrn Køhlert examines the genre's potential for representing lives and perspectives that have been socially marginalized or excluded. With a focus on the comics form's ability to produce alternative and challenging autobiographical narratives, thematic chapters investigate the work of artists writing from perspectives of marginality including gender, sexuality, disability, and race, as well as trauma. Interdisciplinary in scope and attuned to theories and methods from both literary and visual studies, the book provides detailed formal analysis to show that the highly personal and hand-drawn aesthetics of comics can help artists push against established narrative and visual conventions, and in the process invent new ways of seeing and being seen. As the first comparative study of how comics artists from a wide range of backgrounds use the form to write and draw themselves into cultural visibility, Serial Selves will be of interest to anyone interested in the current boom in autobiographical comics, as well as issues of representation in comics and visual culture more broadly.Autobiographical comic books, strips, etcHistory and criticismSelf-perception in artNarrative artThemes, motivesElectronic books.Autobiographical comic books, strips, etc.History and criticism.Self-perception in art.Narrative artThemes, motives.741.535Køhlert Frederik Byrn877225MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910467825003321Serial selves2492589UNINA