Drawing from Life | Memory and Subjectivity in Comic Art

Jane Tolmie

ISBN 10: 1496802640 / ISBN 13: 9781496802644

Published by University Press of Mississippi, 2015

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Drawing from Life | Memory and Subjectivity in Comic Art | Jane Tolmie | Taschenbuch | Einband - flex.(Paperback) | Englisch | 2015 | University Press of Mississippi | EAN 9781496802644 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu Print on Demand.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Drawing from Life | Memory and Subjectivity in Comic Art
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1496802640
• ISBN 13: 9781496802644
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 229W x 152H x 19D millimeters 229 millimeters width by 152 millimeters height by 19 millimeters depth
• Weight: 531 grams
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Synopsis

Autobiography has seen enormous expansions and challenges over the past decades. One of these expansions has been in comics, and it is an expansion that pushes back against any postmodern notion of the death of the author/subject, while also demanding new approaches from critics.

Drawing from Life: Memory and Subjectivity in Comic Art is a collection of essays about autobiography, semi-autobiography, fictionalized autobiography, memory, and self-narration in sequential art, or comics. Contributors come from a range of academic backgrounds including English, American studies, comparative literature, gender studies, art history, and cultural studies. The book engages with well-known figures such as Art Spiegelman, Marjane Satrapi, and Alison Bechdel; with cult-status figures such as Martin Vaughn-James; and with lesser-known works by artists such as Frédéric Boilet.

Negotiations between artist/writer/body and drawn/written/text raise questions of how comics construct identity, and are read and perceived, requiring a critical turn towards theorizing the comics' viewer. At stake in comic memoir and semi-autobiography is embodiment. Remembering a scene with the intent of rendering it in sequential art requires nonlinear thinking and engagement with physicality. Who was in the room and where? What was worn? Who spoke first? What images dominated the encounter? Did anybody smile? Man or mouse? Unhinged from the summary paragraph, the comics artist must confront the fact of the flesh, or the corporeal world, and they do so with fascinating results.

About the Author

Jane Tolmie is associate professor in gender studies, English, and cultural studies at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. She is a poet; feminist activist; editor of Drawing from Life: Memory and Subjectivity in Comic Art, published by University Press of Mississippi; and coeditor of Laments for the Lost in Medieval Literature.