Graphic women : life narrative and contemporary comics / Hillary L. Chute.

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Main Author: Chute, Hillary L.
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, [2010], ©2010.
Series:Gender and culture.
Subjects:
Autobiographical comic books, strips, etc. > History and criticism.
Women's comic books, strips, etc.
Women in comics.
Women cartoonists.
Women in art.
Physical Description:xiii, 297 pages, 26 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction: Women, comics, and the risk of representation
  • Scratching the surface: 'ugly' excess in Aline Kominsky-Crumb
  • 'For all the girls when they have grown': Phoebe Gloeckner's ambivalent images
  • Materializing memory: Lynda Barry's One hundred demons
  • Graphic narrative as witness: Marjane Satrapi and the texture of retracing
  • Animating an archive: repetition and regeneration in Alison Bechdel's Fun home.