Performativity, Cultural Construction, and the Graphic Narrative

Herausgeber: Howard, Leigh Anne; Hoeness-Krupsaw, Susanna

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Produktbeschreibung

This book draws on performance studies scholarship to understand the social impact of graphic novels. Addressing issues of race, gender, ethnicity, race, war, mental illness, and the environment, the volume encompasses the diversity and variety inherent in the graphic narrative medium.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. September 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9780367217969
• ISBN-10: 0367217961
• Artikelnr.: 57816004

Autorenporträt

Leigh Anne Howard studies the performance of personal and social identity, as well as performance methodology. She has published articles in Text and Performance Quarterly, Journal of Applied Communication Research, Communication Education, the American Behavioral Scientist, the Journal of Intercultural Communication, and the Journal of Fandom Studies. Susanna Hoeness-Krupsaw teaches English and Humanities at the University of Southern Indiana. Her research interests include American and Canadian literature and the graphic novel. She has recently published on "The Role of Talk Story in Maxine Hong Kingston and Amy Tan," "Teaching March in the Borderlands between Social Justice and Pop Culture" and "Mary Gordon."

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: Introduction, or Transformations and the Performance of Text and
Image Part I: Mimesis Chapter 2: "Did You Kill Anyone?": The Pathography of
PTSD in The White Donkey Chapter 3: I Don't Have Any Ancestors, OK? Let's
Just Drop It: Miss America and (Pan)Latinx Representation in Marvel's
America Chapter 4: Space, Conflict and Memory in Shaft: A Complicated Man
Chapter 5: Illustrating Mental Illness and Engaging Empathy Through Graphic
Memoir Part II: Poiesis Chapter 6: Mapping the Nation and Reimagining Home
in Vietnamese American Graphic Narratives Chapter 7: "Real Men Don't Smash
Little Girls": Inter-Hero Violence, Families, Masculinity, and Contemporary
Superheroes Chapter 8: Graphic Performances in Octavia Butler's Kindred
Chapter 9: Austen's Audience(s) and the Perils of Adaptation Part III:
Kinesis Chapter 10: Graphical, Radical Women: Revising Boundaries,
Re(Image)ining Écriture Féminine in the Novels of Bechdel and Satrapi
Chapter 11: Bridging the Gutter: Cultural Construction of Gender
Sensitivity in Select Indian Graphic Narratives after Nirbhaya Chapter 12:
"There Are No Monsters Like Us": Gothic Horror, Lesbianism, and the Female
Body in Marguerite Bennett and Ariela Kristantina's InSEXts Chapter 13:
(De)Forging Canadian Identity in Michael DeForge's Sticks Angelica, Folk
Hero Chapter 14: A Killer Rhetoric of Alternatives: Re/Framing Monstrosity
in My Friend Dahmer Chapter 15: The Contextualization of the Palestinian
Experience in Joe Sacco's Comics Journalism