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Title Graphic Women : Life Narrative and Contemporary Comics.

Publication Info. [Place of publication not identified] : Columbia University Press, 2010.

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Description 1 online resource (352)
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Contents Cover13; -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. 13;Scratching the Surface -- 2. 13;8220;For All the Girls When They Have Grown8221; -- 3. 13;Materializing Memory -- 4. 13;Graphic Narrative as Witness -- 5. 13;Animating an Archive -- Color Plates insert13; -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.
Summary 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's Persepolis experiments with visual witness to frame her personal and historical narrative, and Alison Bechdel's Fun 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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Subject Kominsky-Crumb, Aline, 1948-2022.
Gloeckner, Phoebe.
Gloeckner, Phoebe.
Barry, Lynda, 1956- One hundred demons.
Satrapi, Marjane, 1969-
Satrapi, Marjane, 1969-
Bechdel, Alison, 1960- Fun home.
Comic books, strips, etc. -- History and criticism.
Comic books, strips, etc.
Women in literature.
Women in literature.
Women cartoonists.
Women cartoonists.
Women in art.
Women in art.
Genre/Form Electronic resource.
Added Author Chute, Hillary L.
ISBN 1282872311
9781282872318
9780231521574
023152157X
9780231150620
0231150628
0231150636
9780231150637