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Micciche, Laura R. "Seeing and Reading Incest: A Study of Debbie Drechsler’s Daddy’s Girl." Rhetoric Review 23.(2004): 5–20. Added by: joachim (3/20/13, 10:13 PM) Last edited by: joachim (3/20/13, 10:14 PM) |
| Resource type: Journal Article Language: en: English Peer reviewed DOI: 10.2307/20176593 BibTeX citation key: Micciche2004 Email resource to friend View all bibliographic details  |
Categories: General Keywords: "Daddy’s Girl", Autobiography, Drechsler. Debbie, Gender, Rhetoric, USA Creators: Micciche Collection: Rhetoric Review |
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This essay examines the comicbook Daddy’s Girl, by Debbie Drechsler, in an effort to show that mixed-media texts provide a rich contemporary site for the study of rhetoric. Although comicbooks are commonly dismissed as a juvenile art form, I argue that Daddy’s Girl both challenges this dismissal and makes a claim for the comicbook as a site that can address the reality of women’s lives. By contrasting child-like drawings with the serious subject matter of incest, Drechsler powerfully depicts the corruption of innocence; in doing so, she subverts reader expectations concerning what is appropriate comicbook subject matter.
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