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Drawing from Life - Memory and Subjectivity in Comic Art (Paperback)
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Drawing from Life - Memory and Subjectivity in Comic Art (Paperback)
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Autobiography has seen enormous expansions and challenges over the
past decades. One of these expansions has been in comics, and it is
an expansion that pushes back against any postmodern notion of the
death of the author/subject, while also demanding new approaches
from critics. Drawing from Life: Memory and Subjectivity in Comic
Art is a collection of essays about autobiography,
semiautobiography, fictionalized autobiography, memory, and
self-narration in sequential art, or comics. Contributors come from
a range of academic backgrounds including English, American
studies, comparative literature, gender studies, art history, and
cultural studies. The book engages with well-known figures such as
Art Spiegelman, Marjane Satrapi, and Alison Bechdel; with
cult-status figures such as Martin Vaughn-James; and with
lesser-known works by artists such as Frederic Boilet. Negotiations
between artist/writer/body and drawn/written/text raise questions
of how comics construct identity, and are read and perceived,
requiring a critical turn towards theorizing the comics' viewer. At
stake in comic memoir and semi-autobiography is embodiment.
Remembering a scene with the intent of rendering it in sequential
art requires nonlinear thinking and engagement with physicality.
Who was in the room and where? What was worn? Who spoke first? What
images dominated the encounter? Did anybody smile? Man or mouse?
Unhinged from the summary paragraph, the comics artist must
confront the fact of the flesh, or the corporeal world, and they do
so with fascinating results.
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