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Bodies and Boundaries in Graphic Fiction - Reading Female and Nonbinary Characters (Hardcover)
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Bodies and Boundaries in Graphic Fiction - Reading Female and Nonbinary Characters (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in Gender, Sexuality, and Comics
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This book examines the fictional female bodies of four
stylistically distinct comics artists in the United States-Chris
Ware, Emil Ferris, Ebony Flowers, and Tillie Walden-whose work has
attracted significant attention. These bodies showcase how comics
and its unique visual language can both critique and re-envision
some of the most challenging social issues of our time. The
characters analyzed in this book illustrate diverse techniques for
projecting the complex humanity and "truth" of U.S. women's unruly
bodies onto a two-dimensional page. All of the protagonists qualify
as "outsider" in some way, whether by gender identity, sexuality,
ability, religion, race, class, ethnicity, age, or a combination of
these and other categories. These bodily expressions of outsider
identity both resist traditional categorization and stereotypes,
and sometimes harness and employ those stereotypes for the purposes
of parody or social critique. The language of comics affords a
unique opportunity for complex representation of these disparate
women's bodies, especially when comics artists use the full range
of tools at their disposal, such as style, materials, narrative
direction, the space of the gutter, and the friction between word
and image. This is an a timely and important intervention suitable
for researchers and students in comics studies, gender studies,
literature and queer studies.
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