Serial Selves: Identity and Representation in Autobiographical Comics

Synopsis

Serial Selves Considers How Female, Queer, Disabled, And Minority Artists Use Autobiographical Comics To Make Their Experiences Not Only Legible, But Visible As Well. Fusing Methods From Literary And Visual Studies, It Explores How These Artists On The Margins Challenge Both The Narrative Conventions Of Autobiography And The Norms Of Pictorial Self-representation. Introduction: Serial Selves -- Female Grotesques: The Unruly Comics Of Julie Doucet -- Working It Through: Trauma And Visuality In The Comics Of Phoebe Gloeckner -- Young, Queer, And Female: Ariel Schrag's High School Comic Chronicles -- Staring At Comics: Disability And The Body In Al Davison's The Spiral Cage -- Stereotyping The Self: Toufic El Rassi's Arab In America -- Conclusion: Making An Issue Of Representation. Federick Byrn Køhlert. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.