Bodies and Boundaries in Graphic Fiction: Reading Female and Nonbinary Characters Baldanzi Jessica
This book examines the fictional female bodies of four stylistically distinct comics artists in the United States--Chris Ware, Emil Ferris, Ebony Flowers, and Tillie Walden--whose work has attracted…
Specifikacia Bodies and Boundaries in Graphic Fiction: Reading Female and Nonbinary Characters Baldanzi Jessica
This book examines the fictional female bodies of four stylistically distinct comics artists in the United States--Chris Ware, Emil Ferris, Ebony Flowers, and Tillie Walden--whose work has attracted significant attention. These bodies showcase how comics and its unique visual language can both critique and re-envision some of the most challenging social issues of our time.The characters analyzed in this book illustrate diverse techniques for projecting the complex humanity and truth of U.S. women's unruly bodies onto a two-dimensional page. All of the protagonists qualify as outsider in some way, whether by gender identity, sexuality, ability, religion, race, class, ethnicity, age, or a combination of these and other categories. These bodily expressions of outsider identity both resist traditional categorization and stereotypes, and sometimes harness and employ those