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Resource type: Book Language: en: English ID no. (ISBN etc.): 978-1-77112-179-8 BibTeX citation key: Rifkind2016 Email resource to friend View all bibliographic details |
Categories: General Keywords: Autobiography, Canada, Collection of essays Creators: Rifkind, Warley Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press (Waterloo) |
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Canadian Graphic: Picturing Life Narratives presents critical essays on contemporary Canadian cartoonists working in graphic life narrative, from confession to memoir to biography. The contributors draw on literary theory, visual studies, and cultural history to show how Canadian cartoonists have become so prominent in the international market for comic books based on real-life experiences. The essays explore the visual styles and storytelling techniques of Canadian cartoonists, as well as their shared concern with the spectacular vulnerability of the self. Canadian Graphic also considers the role of graphic life narratives in reimagining the national past, including Indigenous–settler relations, both world wars, and Quebec’s Quiet Revolution. Contributors use a range of approaches to analyze the political, aesthetic, and narrative tensions in these works between self and other, memory and history, individual and collective. An original contribution to the study of auto/biography, alternative comics, and Canadian print culture, Canadian Graphicproposes new ways of reading the intersection of comics and auto/biography both within and across national boundaries. Table of Contents Candida Rifkind and Linda Warley: Introduction: Why Canadian Graphic Life Narratives? Part One: Confession and the Relational Self Part Two: Collective Memory and Visual Biography Part Three: Futurity and History |