Autobiographical Comics

Life Writing in Pictures

Dados Bibliográficos

ID23389605
AutoresElisabeth El Refaie (0000-0002-5928-9297, autor correspondente)
Ano2012
Páginas273
Data de publicação2012-10-24
Open AccessNão
TipoBOOK
PeriódicoAutobiographical comics (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditoraUniversity Press of Mississippi (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.14325/mississippi/9781617036132.001.0001
OpenAlexW4253053195
Open LibraryOL25223680M
ISBN9781617036132
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas63

A troubled childhood in Iran. Living with a disability. Grieving for a dead child. Over the last forty years the comic book has become an increasingly popular way of telling personal stories of considerable complexity and depth. In Autobiographical Comics: Life Writing in Pictures, Elisabeth El Refaie offers a long overdue assessment of the key conventions, formal properties, and narrative patterns of this fascinating genre. The book considers eighty-five works of North American and European provenance, works that cover a broad range of subject matters and employ many different artistic st.

Aesthetics · Art · Comics · Epistemology · Identity (music) · Literature · Narrative · Semiotics · Sociology · Storytelling · Subject (documents) · Visual arts · Comics and Graphic Narratives · Computer Science · Digital Storytelling and Education · History · Literacy, Media, and Education · Philosophy · Art, themes, motives, etc · Autobiographical comic books, strips · Comic books, strips, etc · History and criticism · Narrative art · Themes, motives