Sugar, Spice, and the Not So Nice
Comics Picturing Girlhood
Edited by Dona Pursall and Eva Van de Wiele
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VIEW Edited volume - free ebook - ePUB VIEW Edited volume - free ebook - PDFSugar, Spice, and the Not So Nice offers an innovative, wide-ranging and geographically diverse book-length treatment of girlhood in comics. The various contributing authors and artists provide novel insights into established themes within comics studies, children’s comics, graphic medicine and comics by and about refugees and marginalised ethnic or cultural groups. The book enriches traditional historical, narratological and aesthetic approaches to studying girlhood in comics with practice-based research, discussion and conversation. This re-examination of girls, gender and identity in comics connects with contemporary discourse on gender identity politics. Through examples from both within Europe, the anglophone world and beyond, and including visual essays alongside critical theory, the volume furthermore engages with new developments in contemporary comics scholarship. It will therefore appeal to students and scholars of childhood studies, comics scholars and creators, and those interested in addressing gender identity through the prism of comics.
Contributors: Mel Gibson (Northumbria University), Martha Newbigging (Seneca College), María Porras Sánchez (Complutense University of Madrid), JoAnn Purcell (York University and Seneca College), Benoît Glaude (Ghent University/University of Louvain), Sylvain Lesage (University of Lille), Joan Ormrod (Manchester Metropolitan University), Aswathy Senan (The Research Collective Delhi), Michel De Dobbeleer (Ghent University), Sébastien Conard (KASK Ghent School of Arts and LUCA Brussels), Marine Berthiot (University of Edinburgh), Julia Round (Bournemouth University)
Ebook available in Open Access.This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content).
Introduction
Chapter 1. ‘It’s the girl!’ : Comics, Professional Identity, Affection, Nostalgia and Embarrassment
Chapter 2. Looking for Queerness
Chapter 3. Harrowing Rites of Passage : Refugee Girlhood in the Wake of Syrian Migrant Crisis
Chapter 4. Comics, Caregiving and Crip Time
Chapter 5. Discussing Gender in a Communist Comics Magazine : Corinne et Jeannot, 1970
Chapter 6. The Ambivalence of Girlhood and Motherhood in A Girl-and-Her-Dog Comics Series : Margot & Oscar Pluche / Sac à Puces
Chapter 8. The Demon Girl of Malayali Comic Strips : The (Im)possibilities of Comic Imagination
Chapter 9. Reading Girl- and Womanhood in the Classic Flemish Family Comics Series Jommeke : A Conversation with Katrien De Graeve and Sara De Vuyst
Chapter 10. Death and the Maiden : Some Notes Concerning Charlotte Salomon’s Leben? oder Theater?
Chapter 11. Developing a Style of Her Own: Mophead by Selina Tusitala Marsh (2019)
Conclusion
Afterword: Picturing Girlhood
About the Authors
Format: Edited volume - paperback
Size: 230 × 170 × 15 mm
250 pages
Illustrated with a colour section of 30 pp.
ISBN: 9789462703612
Publication: February 20, 2023
Series: Studies in European Comics and Graphic Novels
Languages: English
Stock item number: 152781
Eva Van de Wiele is postdoctoral researcher on the ERC project "Children in Comics" of Prof. Maaheen Ahmed at Ghent University.