Performativity, Cultural Construction, and the Graphic Narrative 9780367217969, 9780429266157

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English Pages [281] Year 2019

Performativity, Cultural Construction, and the Graphic Narrative
9780367217969, 9780429266157

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Leigh Anne Howard and Susanna Hoeness-Krupsaw

Table of contents :
Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
List of figures and table
List of contributors
Acknowledgments
1 Introduction, or transformations and the performance of text and image
PART I: Mimesis: imitating and illustrating
2 “Did you kill anyone?”: the pathography of PTSD in The White Donkey
3 I don’t have any ancestors, OK? Let’s just drop it: Miss America and (Pan)Latinx representation in Marvel’s America
4 Space, conflict, and memory in Shaft: A Complicated Man
5 Illustrating mental illness and engaging empathy through graphic memoir
PART II: Poiesis: making and constructing
6 Mapping the nation and reimagining home in Vietnamese American graphic narratives
7 “Real men don’t smash little girls”: inter-hero violence, families, masculinity, and contemporary superheroes
8 Graphic performances in Octavia Butler’s Kindred
9 Austen’s audience(s) and the perils of adaptation
PART III: Kinesis: breaking and remaking
10 Graphical, radical women: revising boundaries, re(image)ining Écriture Feminine in the novels of Bechdel and Satrapi
11 Bridging the gutter: cultural construction of gender sensitivity in select Indian graphic narratives after Nirbhaya
12 “There Are No Monsters Like Us”: gothic horror, lesbianism, and the female body in Marguerite Bennett and Ariela Kristantina’s InSEXts
13 (De)Forging Canadian identity in Michael DeForge’s Sticks Angelica, Folk Hero
14 A killer rhetoric of alternatives: re/framing monstrosity in My Friend Dahmer
15 The contextualization of the Palestinian experience in Joe Sacco’s Comics Journalism
Index

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