Graphic women : life narrative and contemporary comics / Hillary L. Chute.

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Chute, Hillary L [author.]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Gender and culturePublisher: New York : Columbia University Press, [2010]Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 297 pages) : illustrations (some color)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780231521574
1282872311
9781282872318
023152157X
9786612872310
6612872314

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Graphic women.DDC classification:

741.5

LOC classification:

PN6714 .C49 2010eb

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Contents:

Scratching the Surface: "Ugly Excess in Aline Kominsky-Crumb -- "For All the Girls When They Have Grown": Phoebe Gloeckner's Ambivalent Images -- Materializing Memory: Lynda Barry's One Hundred Demons -- Graphic Narrative as Witness: Marjane Satrapi and the Texture of Retracing -- Animating an Archive: Repetition and Regeneration in Alison Bechdel's Fun Home.

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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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.