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The Comics of Alison Bechdel From the Outside In
Title
The Comics of Alison Bechdel [electronic resource] : From the Outside In / edited by Janine Utell.
ISBN
1496825829
9781496825827
1496825772
9781496825773
9781496825780
Published
Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2020. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Physical Description
1 online resource.
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
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Description based on print version record.
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Summary
"Alison Bechdel is both a driver and beneficiary of the welcoming of comics into the mainstream. Indeed, the seemingly simple binary of outside/inside seems perpetually troubled throughout the career of this important comics artist, known for Fun Home, Are You My Mother?, and Dykes to Watch Out For. This volume extends the body of scholarship on her work from a range of interdisciplinary perspectives. In a definitive collection of original essays, scholars cover the span of Bechdel's career, placing her groundbreaking early work within the context of her more well-known recent projects. The contributors provide new insights on major themes in Bechdel's work, such as gender performativity, masculinity, lesbian politics and representation, trauma, life writing, and queer theory. Situating Bechdel among other comics artists, this book charts possible influences on her work, probes the experimental traits of her comics in their representations of kinship and trauma, combs archival materials to gain insight into Bechdel's creative process, and analyzes her work in community building and space making through the comics form. Ultimately, the volume shows that Bechdel's work consists of performing a series of selves-serializing the self, as it were-each constructed and refracted across and within her chosen artistic modes and genres"-- Provided by publisher.
Variant and related titles
Project MUSE - 2020 Complete.
Project MUSE - 2020 Literature.
Other formats
Online version: The comics of Alison Bechdel Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2020.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
March 03, 2020
Series
Critical approaches to comics artists
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: serializing the self in the space between life and art / Janine Utell
The hospitable aesthetics of Alison Bechdel / Vanessa Lauber
"Girlie man, manly girl, it's all the same to me": how Dykes to Watch Out For shifted gender and comix / Anne N. Thalheimer
Disseminating queer theory: Dykes to Watch Out For and the transmission of theoretical thought / Katherine Parker-Hay
Bechdel's men and masculinity: gay pedant and lesbian man / Judith Kegan Gardiner
Mo van Pelt: Dykes to Watch Out For and Peanuts / Michelle Ann Abate
Dancing with memory in Fun Home / Alissa S. Bourbonnais
"It both is and isn't my life": autobiography, adaptation, and emotion in Fun Home, the Musical / Leah Anderst
Generational trauma and the crisis of apres-coup in Alison Bechdel's graphic memoirs / Natalja Chestopalova
The experimental interiors of Alison Bechdel's Are You My Mother? / Yetta Howard
Inchoate kinship: psychoanalytic narrative and queer relationality in Are You My Mother? / Tyler Bradway
Decolonizing rural space in Alison Bechdel's Fun Home / Katie Hogan
Fun Home and Are You My Mother? as autotopography: queer orientations and the politics of location / Katherine Kelp-Stebbins
Inside the archives of Fun Home / Susan R. Van Dyne
Servants to what cause: illustrating queer movement culture through grassroots periodicals / Margaret Galvan
Framing community from inside out: the information worlds of Dykes to Watch Out For / Don L. Latham and Jonathan M. Hollister.
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