Beschreibung:
Autobiography is one of the most dynamic and quickly-growing genres in contemporary comics and graphic narratives. In Serial Selves, Frederik Byrn Køhlert examines the genre's potential for representing lives and perspectives that have been socially marginalized or excluded.
ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Serial Selves1 Female Grotesques: The Unruly Comics of Julie Doucet2 Working it Through: Trauma and Visuality in the Comics of Phoebe Gloeckner3 Young, Queer, and Female: Ariel Schrag's High School Comic Chronicles4 Staring at Comics: Disability and the Body in Al Davison's The Spiral Cage5 Stereotyping the Self: Toufic El Rassi's Arab in AmericaConclusion: Making an Issue of RepresentationNotesBibliographyIndex