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Author: Candida Rifkind ,
Linda Warley
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Imprint: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 17.10cm
, Height: 2.50cm
, Length: 26.00cm
Weight: 0.575kg
ISBN: 9781771121798
ISBN 10: 1771121793
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 30 May 2016
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Reviews
An essential resource for anyone interested in Canadian comics, life writing, and political issues. Beautifully produced with a useful introduction and fascinating essays about major and emerging cartoonists in Canada and Quebec, Canadian Graphic puts the study of Canadian autobiographical and biographical comics on the academic map and shows us ways to think about one of the most exciting developments in Canadian cultural expression today. Julie Rak, University of Alberta, author of Boom! Manufacturing Memoir for the Popular Market (WLU Press, 2013)
As Canada is increasingly looked up to as a social and political model to follow, this collection provides up-close, original and challenging insights into the inner life, musings, and internal struggles of a modern, multicultural and substantially inclusive society. ... Canadian cartoonists have actively contributed since the 1940s to shape the transnational comics industry in North America, although their most distinctive legacy arguably lies in the alternative and underground scenes, strongly revitalised since the late 1970s. Candida Rifkind's and Linda Warley's staple anthology of graphic life narratives conspicuously shows that Canada - in more ways than one - is still blazing the trail. --Nick Martinez Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics An essential resource for anyone interested in Canadian comics, life writing, and political issues. Beautifully produced with a useful introduction and fascinating essays about major and emerging cartoonists in Canada and Quebec, Canadian Graphic puts the study of Canadian autobiographical and biographical comics on the academic map and shows us ways to think about one of the most exciting developments in Canadian cultural expression today. --Julie Rak, University of Alberta, author of Boom! Manufacturing Memoir for the Popular Market (WLU Press, 2013) An essential resource for anyone interested in Canadian comics, life writing, and political issues. Beautifully produced with a useful introduction and fascinating essays about major and emerging cartoonists in Canada and Quebec, Canadian Graphic puts the study of Canadian autobiographical and biographical comics on the academic map and shows us ways to think about one of the most exciting developments in Canadian cultural expression today. Julie Rak, University of Alberta, author of Boom! Manufacturing Memoir for the Popular Market (WLU Press, 2013)
As Canada is increasingly looked up to as a social and political model to follow, this collection provides up-close, original and challenging insights into the inner life, musings, and internal struggles of a modern, multicultural and substantially inclusive society. ... Canadian cartoonists have actively contributed since the 1940s to shape the transnational comics industry in North America, although their most distinctive legacy arguably lies in the alternative and underground scenes, strongly revitalised since the late 1970s. Candida Rifkind's and Linda Warley's staple anthology of graphic life narratives conspicuously shows that Canada - in more ways than one - is still blazing the trail.
Author Information
Candida Rifkind is an associate professor in the Department of English, University of Winnipeg. She published Comrades and Critics: Women, Literature, and the Left in 1930s Canada (2009) and has chapters on graphic life narratives in Material Cultures in Canada (WLU Press, 2015), Canadian Literature and Cultural Memory (2014), and the journals Biography, International Journal of Comic Art, and Canadian Review of American Studies. Linda Warley specializes in Canadian life writing, including texts by First Nations and Métis authors. She has a recent chapter on John Gallant and Seth's Bannock, Beans and Black Tea in Canadian Literature and Cultural Memory (2014). She is co-editor, with Marlene Kadar,, Jeanne Perreault, and Susanna Egan of Tracing the Autobiographical (WLU Press, 2005) and, with Jeanne Perreault and Marlene Kadar, of Photographs, Histories, and Meanings (2009).
