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Resource type: Book Language: en: English DOI: 10.4324/9781003039402 ID no. (ISBN etc.): 9780367483333 BibTeX citation key: 2021f Email resource to friend View all bibliographic details |
Categories: General Keywords: Collection of essays, Gender Creators: Beers Fägersten, Nordenstam, Romu, Wallin Wictorin Publisher: Routledge (London, New York) |
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Abstract |
This edited collection explores how the relationship between comic art and feminism has been shaped by global, transnational, and local trends, curating analyses of multinational comic art that encompass themes of gender, sexuality, power, vulnerability, assault, abuse, taboo, and trauma. The chapters illuminate in turn the defining features of the aesthetics, materiality, and thematic content of their source material – often expressed with humorous undertones of self-reflection or social criticism – as well as recurring strategies of visualising and narrating female experiences. Broadening the research perspective of feminist comics to include national comics cultures peripheral to the cultural centers of Anglo-American, Franco-Belgian, and Japanese comics, the anthology explores how the dominant narrative or history of canonical works can be challenged or deconstructed by local histories of comics and feminism and their transnational connections, and how local histories complement or challenge the current understanding of the relationship between feminism and comic art. |