Graphic Embodiments
Perspectives on Health and Embodiment in Graphic Narratives
Edited by Lisa DeTora and Jodi Cressman
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VIEW Edited volume - ebook - PDFGraphic narratives’ singular capacity to represent human embodiment
Comics and other graphic narratives powerfully represent embodied experiences that are difficult to express in language. A group of authors from various countries and disciplines explore the unique capacity of graphic narratives to represent human embodiment as well as the relation of human bodies to the worlds they inhabit. Using works from illustrated scientific texts to contemporary comics across national traditions, we discover how the graphic narrative can shed new light on everyday experiences. Essays examine topics that are easily recognized as anchored in the body as well as experiences like migration and concepts like environmental degradation and compassion that emanate from or impact on our embodied states.
Graphic Embodiments is of interest to
scholars and students across various interdisciplinary fields including comics
studies, gender and sexuality studies, visual and cultural studies, disability
studies and health and medical humanities.
Contributors:
Frederick Luis Aldama (Ohio State University), Jodi Cressman (Dominican
University), Lisa DeTora (Hofstra University), KJ Dykstra (University of
Manitoba), Antonio J. Ferraro (Ohio State University), Carl Fisher (California
State University at Long Beach), Barbara Grüning (University of Milan Bicocca),
Jordana Greenblat (York University), Alison Halsall (York University), Michael
J. Klein (James Madison University), Jeannie Ludlow (Eastern Illinois
University), Lauren Rizzuto (Tufts University), Evelyn Rogers (Moorpark
College), Shreya Sengai (Northeastern University)
This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content).
Introduction
PART 1. MAKING SENSE OF EMBODIMENT
The Embodied Witness of Graphic Pathology
Embodying the Mind: Social Metacognition in Graphic Medical Narratives
Embodiments of Virtue: Depiction of Caste in Popular Indian Comics and Graphic Novels
Graphic Experiences of Immigration, Migration, and Diaspora: Shaun Tan’s The Arrival and Matt Huynh’s Interactive Graphic Adaptation of Nam Le’s “The Boat”
Body Talk: A Cross-Disciplinary Course on Embodiment and Graphic Memoir
Women’s Gazes and Non-Newtonian Embodiment in Scientific Graphic Biography
Spatializing Women’s Bodies in Italian Comics: A Gender-Sociological Perspective
Mother Nature, “She’s a Bitch”: Maternity and Ecofeminism in This One Summer
“A Thin Line Between the Inside and the Outside”: HIV and Graphic Life Writing
The Price of an Ending: Reading Graphic Embodiment in Cancer Vixen
Voiceless Bodies: Drawing Autism and Depression in Bef’s Maria Speaks
Full Bleed: The Graphic Period at the End of the Menstrual Narrative
Works Cited
Format: Edited volume - paperback
Size: 234 × 156 × 11 mm
211 pages
ISBN: 9789462702677
Publication: March 01, 2021
Languages: English
Stock item number: 140589
Lisa DeTora is associate professor of Writing Studies and Rhetoric and director of STEM Writing at Hofstra University in Hempstead, NY.