LEADER 03429nam 2200517 450 001 9910795325803321 005 20230817190046.0 010 $a0-8135-9228-3 024 7 $a10.36019/9780813592282 035 $a(CKB)4970000000109314 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5880426 035 $a(DE-B1597)528534 035 $a(OCoLC)1100457948 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780813592282 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL5880426 035 $a(EXLCZ)994970000000109314 100 $a20190927d2019 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aSerial selves $eidentity and representation in autobiographical comics /$fFederick Byrn Køhlert 210 1$aNew Brunswick, New Jersey :$cRutgers University Press,$d[2019] 210 4$d©2019 215 $a1 online resource (v, 231 pages) $cillustrations 311 0 $a0-8135-9225-9 311 0 $a0-8135-9229-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 211-221) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIntroduction: Serial Selves --$t1. Female Grotesques: The Unruly Comics of Julie Doucet --$t2. Working It Through: Trauma and Visuality in the Comics of Phoebe Gloeckner --$t3. Queer as Style: Ariel Schrag's High School Comic Chronicles --$t4. Staring at Comics: Disability and the Body in Al Davison's The Spiral Cage --$t5. Stereotyping the Self: Toufic El Rassi's Arab in America --$tConclusion: Making an Issue of Representation --$tAcknowledgments --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex --$tAbout the Author 330 $aAutobiography 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. 606 $aAutobiographical comic books, strips, etc$xHistory and criticism 606 $aSelf-perception in art 606 $aNarrative art$xThemes, motives 615 0$aAutobiographical comic books, strips, etc.$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aSelf-perception in art. 615 0$aNarrative art$xThemes, motives. 676 $a741.535 700 $aKøhlert$b Frederik Byrn$01572891 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910795325803321 996 $aSerial selves$93857019 997 $aUNINA