Contributions by Frederick Luis Aldama, Melissa Burgess, Susan
Kirtley, Rachel Luria, Ursula Murray Husted, Mark O'Connor, Allan
Pero, Davida Pines, Tara Prescott-Johnson, Jane Tolmie, Rachel
Trousdale, Elaine Claire Villacorta, and Glenn Willmott Lynda Barry
(b. 1956) is best known for her distinctive style and unique voice,
first popularized in her underground weekly comic Ernie Pook's
Comeek. Since then, she has published prolifically, including
numerous comics, illustrated novels, and nonfiction books exploring
the creative process. Barry's work is genre- and form-bending,
often using collage to create what she calls "word with drawing"
vignettes. Her art, imaginative and self-reflective, allows her to
discuss gender, race, relationships, memory, and her personal,
everyday lived experience. It is through this experience that Barry
examines the creative process and offers to readers ways to record
and examine their own lives. The essays in Contagious Imagination:
The Work and Art of Lynda Barry, edited by Jane Tolmie, study the
pedagogy of Barry's work and its application academically and
practically. Examining Barry's career and work from the point of
view of research-creation, Contagious Imagination applies Barry's
unique mixture of teaching, art, learning, and creativity to the
very form of the volume, exploring Barry's imaginative praxis and
offering readers their own. With a foreword by Frederick Luis
Aldama and an afterword by Glenn Willmott, this volume explores the
impact of Barry's work in and out of the classroom. Divided into
four sections-Teaching and Learning, which focuses on critical
pedagogy; Comics and Autobiography, which targets various practices
of rememorying; Cruddy, a self-explanatory category that offers two
extraordinary critical interventions into Barry criticism around a
challenging text; and Research-Creation, which offers two creative,
synthetic artistic pieces that embody and enact Barry's own mixed
academic and creative investments-this book offers numerous inroads
into Barry's idiosyncratic imagination and what it can teach us
about ourselves.
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