The Comics of Alison Bechdel: From the Outside In (Critical Approaches to Comics Artists Series)

University Press of Mississippi

ISBN 10: 1496825780 / ISBN 13: 9781496825780

Published by University Press of Mississippi, 2019

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Comics of Alison Bechdel: From the Outside In (Critical Approaches to Comics Artists Series)
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1496825780
• ISBN 13: 9781496825780
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: good

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Synopsis

Contributions by Michelle Ann Abate, Leah Anderst, Alissa S. Bourbonnais, Tyler Bradway, Natalja Chestopalova, Margaret Galvan, Judith Kegan Gardiner, Katie Hogan, Jonathan M. Hollister, Yetta Howard, Katherine Kelp-Stebbins, Don L. Latham, Vanessa Lauber, Katherine Parker-Hay, Anne N. Thalheimer, Janine Utell, and Susan R. Van Dyne

Alison Bechdel is both a driver and beneficiary of the welcoming of comics into the mainstream. Indeed, the seemingly simple binary of outside/inside seems perpetually troubled throughout the career of this important comics artist, known for Fun Home, Are You My Mother?, and Dykes to Watch Out For. This volume extends the body of scholarship on her work from a range of interdisciplinary perspectives.

In a definitive collection of original essays, scholars cover the span of Bechdel’s career, placing her groundbreaking early work within the context of her more well-known recent projects. The contributors provide new insights on major themes in Bechdel’s work, such as gender performativity, masculinity, lesbian politics and representation, trauma, life writing, and queer theory.

Situating Bechdel among other comics artists, this book charts possible influences on her work, probes the experimental traits of her comics in their representations of kinship and trauma, combs archival materials to gain insight into Bechdel’s creative process, and analyzes her work in community building and space making through the comics form.

Ultimately, the volume shows that Bechdel’s work consists of performing a series of selves―serializing the self, as it were―each constructed and refracted across and within her chosen artistic modes and genres.

About the Author

Janine Utell is author of several books, most recently Literary Couples and 20th-Century Life Writing: Narrative and Intimacy, and editor of The Comics of Alison Bechdel: From the Outside In, published by University Press of Mississippi, and Teaching Modernist Women’s Writing in English. Utell serves as editor for “Orientations,” a forum dedicated to queer and feminist modernist studies for Modernism/modernity. She also currently serves as president for the Modernist Studies Association.