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| Genre/Form: | Comics (Graphic works) Criticism, interpretation, etc |
|---|---|
| Named Person: | Aline Kominsky-Crumb; Phoebe Gloeckner; Lynda Barry; Marjane Satrapi; Alison Bechdel; Lynda Barry; Phoebe Gloeckner; Aline Kominsky-Crumb; Marjane Satrapi |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Hillary L Chute |
| ISBN: | 9780231150620 0231150628 0231150636 9780231150637 |
| OCLC Number: | 496610090 |
| Description: | xiii, 297 pages, 26 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 27 cm |
| Contents: | Introduction: Women, comics, and the risk of representation -- Scratching the surface: 'ugly' excess in Aline Kominsky-Crumb -- 'For all the girls when they have grown': Phoebe Gloeckner's ambivalent images -- Materializing memory: Lynda Barry's One hundred demons -- Graphic narrative as witness: Marjane Satrapi and the texture of retracing -- Animating an archive: repetition and regeneration in Alison Bechdel's Fun home. |
| Series Title: | Gender and culture. |
| Responsibility: | Hillary L. Chute. |
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Scholarly and fascinating. -- Colette Bancroft St. Petersburg Times The graphic novel industry isn't a boys club. Time Out Chicago Graphic Women is a text that will appeal to anyone with an interest in contemporary women's literature and trauma studies, as well as those with a budding or established interest in the rich world of comics studies. -- Tahneer Oksman Contemporary Women's Writing An absorbing book written with dedication, impressive documentation, and a very sharp eye for detail. -- Mihaela Precup Biography ...an essential book for those who are interested in autobiography, visual studies and comics in general as it initiates a beginning in the study of women's graphic memoirs. -- Olga Michael Scadinavian Journal of Comic Art Read more...

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- Kominsky-Crumb, Aline, -- 1948-
- Gloeckner, Phoebe.
- Barry, Lynda, -- 1956-
- Satrapi, Marjane, -- 1969-
- Bechdel, Alison, -- 1960- -- Fun home.
- Comic books, strips, etc -- History and criticism.
- Women in literature.
- Women cartoonists.
- Women in art.
- Autobiographies as Topic.
- Cartoons as Topic.
- Women.
- Fun home (Bechdel, Alison)
- Comic books, strips, etc.
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