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Baldanzi, Jessica. Bodies and Boundaries in Graphic Fiction: Reading Female and Nonbinary Characters. Routledge Studies in Gender, Sexuality, and Comics. London, New York: Routledge, 2023. Added by: joachim (10/12/24, 10:58 PM) Last edited by: joachim (10/12/24, 11:01 PM) |
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| Resource type: Book Language: en: English DOI: 10.4324/9781003133513 ID no. (ISBN etc.): 9780367679477 BibTeX citation key: Baldanzi2023 Email resource to friend View all bibliographic details  |
Categories: General Keywords: "Building Stories", "Hot Comb", "My Favorite Thing Is Monsters", "On a Sunbeam", Body, Ferris. Emil, Flowers. Ebony, Gender, USA, Walden. Tillie, Ware. Chris Creators: Baldanzi Publisher: Routledge (London, New York) |
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This book examines the fictional female bodies of four stylistically distinct comics artists in the United States—Chris Ware, Emil Ferris, Ebony Flowers, and Tillie Walden—whose work has attracted significant attention. These bodies showcase how comics and its unique visual language can both critique and re-envision some of the most challenging social issues of our time. The characters analyzed in this book illustrate diverse techniques for projecting the complex humanity and "truth" of U.S. women’s unruly bodies onto a two-dimensional page. All of the protagonists qualify as "outsider" in some way, whether by gender identity, sexuality, ability, religion, race, class, ethnicity, age, or a combination of these and other categories. These bodily expressions of outsider identity both resist traditional categorization and stereotypes, and sometimes harness and employ those stereotypes for the purposes of parody or social critique. The language of comics affords a unique opportunity for complex representation of these disparate women’s bodies, especially when comics artists use the full range of tools at their disposal, such as style, materials, narrative direction, the space of the gutter, and the friction between word and image. |