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Serial Selves

Identity and Representation in Autobiographical Comics

By (author) Frederik Byrn Kohlert
Format: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick NJ, United States
Published: 15th Mar 2019
Dimensions: w 152mm h 229mm d 15mm
Weight: 340g
Interest age: From 16 to 99 years
ISBN-10: 0813592259
ISBN-13: 9780813592251
Barcode No: 9780813592251
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Autobiography is one of the most dynamic and quickly-growing genres in contemporary comics and graphic narratives. In Serial Selves, Frederik Byrn Kohlert examines the genre's potential for representing lives and perspectives that have been socially marginalized or excluded. With a focus on the comics form's ability to produce alternative and challenging autobiographical narratives, thematic chapters investigate the work of artists writing from perspectives of marginality including gender, sexuality, disability, and race, as well as trauma. Interdisciplinary in scope and attuned to theories and methods from both literary and visual studies, the book provides detailed formal analysis to show that the highly personal and hand-drawn aesthetics of comics can help artists push against established narrative and visual conventions, and in the process invent new ways of seeing and being seen. As the first comparative study of how comics artists from a wide range of backgrounds use the form to write and draw themselves into cultural visibility, Serial Selves will be of interest to anyone interested in the current boom in autobiographical comics, as well as issues of representation in comics and visual culture more broadly.

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