Graphic Subjects

by Chaney, Michael A.

• ISBN13: 9780299251048
• ISBN10: 0299251047
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-03-01
• Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Pr

Summary

Some of the most noteworthy graphic novels and comic books of recent years have been entirely autobiographical. InGraphic SubjectsMichael A. Chaney brings together a lively mix of scholars to examine the use of autobiography within graphic novels, including such critically acclaimed examples as Art Spiegelmanrs"sMaus, David Beauchardrs"sEpileptic, Marjane Satrapirs"sPersepolis, Alan Moorers"sWatchmen, and Gene Yangrs"sAmerican Born Chinese. These essays, accompanied by visual examples, illuminate the new horizons that illustrated autobiographical narrative creates. The volume insightfully highlights the ways that graphic novelists and literary cartoonists have incorporated history, experience, and life stories into their work. The result is a challenging and innovative collection that reveals the combined power of autobiography and the graphic novel.

Author Biography

Michael A. Chaney is associate professor of English at Dartmouth College and author of Fugitive Vision.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. 3
Art Spiegelman
Reading Comics: Art Spiegelman on CD-ROM	p. 13
Mourning and Postmemory	p. 17
Art Spiegelman and AutobioGRAPHICal Re-Vision	p. 45
Breakdowns and Breakthroughs: Looking for Art in Young Spiegelman	p. 51
The Global Scope of Autography
Human Rights and Comics: Autobiographical Avatars, Crisis Witnessing, and Transnational Rescue Networks	p. 61
Picturing Oneself as Another	p. 73
Dominique Goblet: The List Principle and the Meaning of Form	p. 76
The Animal Witness of the Rwandan Genocide	p. 93
Autobiography as Discovery in Epileptic	p. 101
Manga and the End of Japan's 1960s	p. 117
Visualizing Women's Life Writing
Autographic Disclosures and Genealogies of Desire in Alison Bechdel's Fun Home	p. 123
Witnessing Persepolis: Comics, Trauma, and Childhood Testimony	p. 157
A Story Told in Flashback: Remediating Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis	p. 164
Autobiography: The Process Negates the Term	p. 178
Up from Surgery: The Politics of Self-Representation in Women's Graphic Memoirs of Illness	p. 180
The Gutter Effect in Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's A Dialogue on Love	p. 195
Photau(gyno)graphy: The Work of Joanne Leonard	p. 200
Varieties of the Self
The Diary Comic	p. 209
Justin Green: Autobiography Meets the Comics	p. 227
Narrative Worldmaking in Graphic Life Writing	p. 231
In Praise of Joseph Witek's Comic Books as History	p. 244
Selective Mutual Reinforcement in the Comics of Chester Brown, Joe Matt, and Seth	p. 247
Keeping it (Hyper)Real: Autobiographical Fiction in 3-D	p. 260
Fictional Auto/Biography and Graphic Lives in Watchmen	p. 265
American Born Chinese: Challenging the Stereotype	p. 279
Materializing Memory: Lynda Barry's One Hundred Demons	p. 282
Reflections on Lynda Barry	p. 310
Contributors	p. 315
Index	p. 323
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