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Disability in Comic Books and Graphic Narratives (ePub eBook) 1st ed. 2016


Disability in Comic Books and Graphic Narratives (ePub eBook) 1st ed. 2016

eBook by Foss, C./Gray, J./Whalen, Zach

Disability in Comic Books and Graphic Narratives (ePub eBook)

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ISBN:
9781137501110
Publication Date:
08 Apr 2016
Edition:
1st ed. 2016
Publisher:
Springer Nature
Imprint:
Palgrave Macmillan
Pages:
216 pages
Format:
eBook
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Disability in Comic Books and Graphic Narratives (ePub eBook)

Description

As there has yet to be any substantial scrutiny of the complex confluences a more sustained dialogue between disability studies and comics studies might suggest, Disability in Comic Books and Graphic Narratives aims through its broad range of approaches and focus points to explore this exciting subject in productive and provocative ways.

Contents

Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Foreword; Rosemarie Garland-Thomson 1. Introduction: From Feats of Clay to Narrative Prose/thesis; Zach Whalen, Chris Foss, and Jonathan W. Gray 2. Mutable Articulations: Disability Rhetorics and the Comics Medium; Jay Dolmage and Dale Jacobs 3. 'when you have no voice, you don't exist'? Envisioning Disability in David Small's Stitches; Christina Maria Koch 4. The Hidden Architecture of Disability: Chris Ware's Building Stories; Todd A. Comer 5. Standing Orders: Oracle, Disability, and Retconning; Jose Alaniz 6. Drawing Disability: Superman, Huntington's, and the Comic Form in It's a Bird...; Mariah Crilley 7. Reading in Pictures: Re-Visioning Autism and Literature through the Medium of Manga; Chris Foss 8. Graphic Violence in Word and Image: Re-Imagining Closure in The Ride Together; Shannon Walters 9. 'Why Couldn't You Let Me Die?': Cyborg, Social Death, and Narratives of Disability; Jonathan W. Gray 10. 'You Only Need Three Senses for This': The Disruptive Potentiality of Cyborg Helen Keller; Laurie Ann Carlson 11. Cripping the Bat: Troubling Images of Batman; Daniel Preston 12. Breaking Up [at/with] Illness Narratives; Kristen Gay 13. Thinking through Thea: Alison Bechdel's Representations of Disability; Margaret Galvan Index

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