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MacFarlane, Elizabeth. "Self Wrought: The Unreliable Narrator / the Unreliable Self in Pat Grant’s BLUE and Mandy Ord’s Rooftops." Cultural Excavation and Formal Expression in the Graphic Novel. Eds. Jonathan C. Evans and Thomas Giddens. At the Interface, Probing the Boundaries. Oxford: Inter-Disciplinary Pr. 2013. 35–53. Added by: joachim (27/09/2025, 11:53) |
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| Resource type: Book Chapter Language: en: English BibTeX citation key: MacFarlane2013 Email resource to friend View all bibliographic details  |
Categories: General Keywords: "Blue", "Rooftops", Australia, Authenticity, Autobiography, Grant. Pat, Narratology, Ord. Mandy Creators: Evans, Giddens, MacFarlane Publisher: Inter-Disciplinary Pr. (Oxford) Collection: Cultural Excavation and Formal Expression in the Graphic Novel |
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Recent scholarship on how the medium of comics intersects with autobiography studies is taking ideas about narrative and ideas about the representation of identity in multiple directions. This chapter addresses this intersection in the specific context of the contemporary Australian autobiographical comics BLUE by Pat Grant and Rooftops by Mandy Ord. The chapter first addresses itself to the assertion, as adopted in various ways by Will Eisner, Bart Beaty, Hillary Chute and Dale Jacobs among others, that the multiple layers, textures and languages inherent in the medium of comics add to its ability to present narrative ‘authenticity.’ The paper then investigates points of intersection between comics theory and the broader arena of contemporary studies of autobiography. Lastly, the chapter engages two recent Australian autobiographical comics to explore the question of the unreliable narrator in autobiographical comics.
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