Contributions by Michelle Ann Abate, Leah Anderst, Alissa S.
Bourbonnais, Tyler Bradway, Natalja Chestopalova, Margaret Galvan,
Judith Kegan Gardiner, Katie Hogan, Jonathan M. Hollister, Yetta
Howard, Katherine Kelp-Stebbins, Don L. Latham, Vanessa Lauber,
Katherine Parker-Hay, Anne N. Thalheimer, Janine Utell, and Susan
R. Van Dyne. Alison Bechdel is both a driver and beneficiary of the
welcoming of comics into the mainstream. Indeed, the seemingly
simple binary of outside/inside seems perpetually troubled
throughout the career of this important comics artist, known for
Fun Home, Are You My Mother?, and Dykes to Watch Out For. This
volume extends the body of scholarship on her work from a range of
interdisciplinary perspectives. In a definitive collection of
original essays, scholars cover the span of Bechdel's career,
placing her groundbreaking early work within the context of her
more well-known recent projects. The Contributors provide new
insights on major themes in Bechdel's work, such as gender
performativity, masculinity, lesbian politics and representation,
trauma, life writing, and queer theory. Situating Bechdel among
other comics artists, this book charts possible influences on her
work, probes the experimental traits of her comics in their
representations of kinship and trauma, combs archival materials to
gain insight into Bechdel's creative process, and analyzes her work
in community building and space making through the comics form.
Ultimately, the volume shows that Bechdel's work consists of
performing a Series of selves-serializing the self, as it were-each
constructed and refracted across and within her chosen artistic
modes and genres.
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