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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