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Serial Selves - Identity and Representation in Autobiographical Comics (Hardcover)
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Serial Selves - Identity and Representation in Autobiographical Comics (Hardcover)
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Autobiography is one of the most dynamic and quickly-growing genres
in contemporary comics and graphic narratives. In Serial Selves,
Frederik Byrn Kohlert 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.
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