Bodies and boundaries in graphic fiction : reading female and nonbinary characters / Jessica Baldanzi.

"This book examines the fictional female bodies of four stylistically distinct comics artists in the US-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...

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Main Author: Baldanzi, Jessica (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2023.
Series:Routledge studies in gender, sexuality, and comics.
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Table of Contents:
  • <P></P><P>Introduction: Our Bodies, Our Sequential Selves; 1: Boxing Bodies and <I>Building Stories:</I> The Anatomy of an Everyday Life; 2: The Horror of the Female Body: Monstrous Subversion in <I>My Favorite Thing Is Monsters; </I>3: Privacy and Proliferation: "Embodied Thinking" in <I>Hot Comb; </I>4: <I>On a Sunbeam:</I> The Promise and Perils of Utopian Bodies, Spaces, and Outer Space; Epilogue: Future Bodies</P>