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Ball, David M. "Comics Against Themselves: Chris Ware’s Graphic Narratives as Literature." The Rise of the American Comics Artist. Creators and Contexts. Eds. Paul Williams and James Lyons. Jackson: Univ. Press of Mississippi, 2010. 103–23. Added by: joachim (1/25/11, 2:46 PM) Last edited by: joachim (7/29/14, 3:31 PM) |
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| Resource type: Book Chapter Language: en: English DOI: 10.14325/mississippi/9781604737929.003.0008 BibTeX citation key: Ball2010b Email resource to friend View all bibliographic details  |
Categories: General Keywords: "ACME Novelty Library", Literature, Modernity, Popular culture, Postmodernism, USA, Ware. Chris Creators: Ball, Lyons, Williams Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi (Jackson) Collection: The Rise of the American Comics Artist. Creators and Contexts |
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This chapter examines Chris Ware’s graphic narratives in relation to a modernist aesthetic of fragmentation, the institutional maneuvers that sell comics, and Ware’s representation of the connection between comics as art and comics as a popular publishing industry. In particular, it looks at periodization and the ways comics complicate most conventional notions of modernism and postmodernism in twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature. The chapter argues that the characteristic ambivalence of contemporary graphic narratives about their status as productions of popular culture echoes modernist anxieties about literary value that reappear precisely at a time when graphic narratives are struggling to win literary respectability.
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