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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Frederik Byrn KøhlertPublisher: Rutgers University Press Imprint: Rutgers University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.340kg ISBN: 9780813592251ISBN 10: 0813592259 Pages: 242 Publication Date: 15 March 2019 Recommended Age: From 16 to 99 years Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , General , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Introduction: Serial Selves 1 Female Grotesques: The Unruly Comics of Julie Doucet 2 Working it Through: Trauma and Visuality in the Comics of Phoebe Gloeckner 3 Young, Queer, and Female: Ariel Schrag’s High School Comic Chronicles 4 Staring at Comics: Disability and the Body in Al Davison’s The Spiral Cage 5 Stereotyping the Self: Toufic El Rassi’s Arab in America Conclusion: Making an Issue of Representation Notes Bibliography IndexReviewsAnalyzes the ways in which minority artists create illustrations, and the context and messaging behind the images created in a broader sense....Graduate students, scholars and professionals interested in comics and the media might find this book to be a helpful tool. -- Communication Booknotes Quarterly A lovely, insightful, and markedly entertaining read as well as a promising place for scholars interested in marginalized identities and autobiographical comics to begin. The blend of context, formal critique, intersectional scholarship, and intentionally limited scope is an admirable accomplishment. -- Inks: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society This book offers a rich and varied set of positions through which this new revolution can be understood and celebrated, and should be of value and interest to readers approaching it from disparate positions. -- The European Journal of Life Writing In this engrossing and tremendously insightful book, Kohlert deftly analyzes comics as a visual form with the precision of a surgeon's scalpel, paying close attention to the myriad ways comics authors use the formal elements unique to comics to express meaning and embody their intentions. By discussing these five authors in concert, Kohlert not only sheds new light on their individual works, but he also points to the potential for the medium to serve as a powerful vehicle to represent issues around the body. This is an invaluable text for anyone teaching comics. --Nick Sousanis author of Unflattening The possibilities of comics as an avenue for visibility and accurate representation are repeated themes throughout Kohlert's deep and thoughtful analysis of each author-artists' work in Serial Selves. The result is a book written with the enthusiasm of pop culture lovers and underground comics fans, but useful in fields and interests beyond those boundaries. -- Communication Booknotes Quarterly Serial Selves leaps past the existing scholarship on autobiographical comics, bringing a fuller sense of context and more diverse corpus. Persistently, and brilliantly, Kohlert reminds us that the choice between formal rigor and social engagement is a false one, and that comics studies at its best achieves both. Synthesizing a tremendous range of research--from autobiography theory, trauma theory, gender studies, disability studies, and other fields--he approaches neglected or misunderstood works, asks tough questions, and, in every case, uses close formal analysis to unpack issues of subjectivity and identity formation. A watershed work. --Charles Hatfield author of Hand of Fire: The Comics Art of Jack Kirby Acutely attuned to the formal properties of autobiographical comics, Frederik Byrn Kohlert argues that the drawn 'I' produces new knowledge about trauma, bodies, temporality, power, and resistance. Serial Selves persuasively demonstrates the complexity of autobiographical comics and their undeniable importance as a cultural and autobiographical form. --Leigh Gilmore author of Tainted Witness: Why We Doubt What Women Say About Their Lives In this engrossing and tremendously insightful book, K hlert deftly analyzes comics as a visual form with the precision of a surgeon's scalpel, paying close attention to the myriad ways comics authors use the formal elements unique to comics to express meaning and embody their intentions. By discussing these five authors in concert, K hlert not only sheds new light on their individual works, but he also points to the potential for the medium to serve as a powerful vehicle to represent issues around the body. This is an invaluable text for anyone teaching comics. --Nick Sousanis author of Unflattening Acutely attuned to the formal properties of autobiographical comics, Frederik Byrn K hlert argues that the drawn 'I' produces new knowledge about trauma, bodies, temporality, power, and resistance. Serial Selves persuasively demonstrates the complexity of autobiographical comics and their undeniable importance as a cultural and autobiographical form. --Leigh Gilmore author of Tainted Witness: Why We Doubt What Women Say About Their Lives Serial Selves leaps past the existing scholarship on autobiographical comics, bringing a fuller sense of context and more diverse corpus. Persistently, and brilliantly, K hlert reminds us that the choice between formal rigor and social engagement is a false one, and that comics studies at its best achieves both. Synthesizing a tremendous range of research--from autobiography theory, trauma theory, gender studies, disability studies, and other fields--he approaches neglected or misunderstood works, asks tough questions, and, in every case, uses close formal analysis to unpack issues of subjectivity and identity formation. A watershed work. --Charles Hatfield author of Hand of Fire: The Comics Art of Jack Kirby In this engrossing and tremendously insightful book, K hlert deftly analyzes comics as a visual form with the precision of a surgeon's scalpel, paying close attention to the myriad ways comics authors use the formal elements unique to comics to express meaning and embody their intentions. By discussing these five authors in concert, K hlert not only sheds new light on their individual works, but he also points to the potential for the medium to serve as a powerful vehicle to represent issues around the body. This is an invaluable text for anyone teaching comics. --Nick Sousanis author of Unflattening Serial Selves leaps past the existing scholarship on autobiographical comics, bringing a fuller sense of context and more diverse corpus. Persistently, and brilliantly, K hlert reminds us that the choice between formal rigor and social engagement is a false one, and that comics studies at its best achieves both. Synthesizing a tremendous range of research--from autobiography theory, trauma theory, gender studies, disability studies, and other fields--he approaches neglected or misunderstood works, asks tough questions, and, in every case, uses close formal analysis to unpack issues of subjectivity and identity formation. A watershed work. --Charles Hatfield author of Hand of Fire: The Comics Art of Jack Kirby Author InformationFREDERIK BYRN KØHLERT is a lecturer in the School of Art, Media, and American Studies at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, United Kingdom. He is the author of The Chicago Literary Experience: Writing the City, 1893-1953. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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