Overview
This book examines the fictional female bodies of four stylistically distinct comics artists in the United StatesāChris Ware, Emil Ferris, Ebony Flowers, and Tillie Waldenāwhose 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. womenās 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 stereotypes for the purposes of parody or social critique. The language of comics affords a unique opportunity for complex representation of these disparate womenās bodies, especially when comics artists use the full range of tools at their disposal, such as style, materials, narrative direction, the space of the gutter, and the friction between word and image.
This is an a timely and important intervention suitable for researchers and students in comics studies, gender studies, literature and queer studies.
This book title, Bodies and Boundaries in Graphic Fiction (Reading Female and Nonbinary Characters), ISBN: 9780367679484, by Jessica Baldanzi, published by Taylor & Francis (January 29, 2024) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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