Show Me Where It Hurts - Manifesting Illness and Impairment in Graphic Pathography

In Show Me Where It Hurts, Monica Chiu argues that graphic pathography—long-form comics by and about subjects who suffer from disease or are impaired—re-vitalizes and re-visions various negatively affected corporeal states through hand-drawn images. By the body and for the body, the medium is subversive and reparative, and it stands in contradistinction to clinical accounts of illness that tend to disembody or objectify the subject. Employing affect theory, spatial theory, vital materialism, and approaches from race and ethnic studies, women and gender studies, disability studies, and comics studies, Chiu provides readings of recently published graphic pathography. Chiu argues that these kinds of subjective graphic stories, by virtue of their narrative and descriptive strengths, provide a form of resistance to the authoritative voice of biomedicine and serve as a tool to foster important change in the face of social and economic inequities when it comes to questions of health and healthcare. Show Me Where It Hurts reads what already has been manifested on the comics page and invites more of what demands expression. Pathbreaking and provocative, this book will appeal to scholars and students of the medical humanities, comics studies, race and ethnic studies, disability studies, and women and gender studies.

General

Imprint:	Pennsylvania State University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Graphic Medicine
Release date:	December 2023
First published:	2024
Authors:	Monica Chiu
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Pages:	196
ISBN-13:	978-0-271-09682-7
Categories:	Books Promotions
LSN:	0-271-09682-9
Barcode:	9780271096827

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