Drawn from Memory
Comics Artists and Intergenerational Auto/biography
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8895091 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Candida Rifkind (0000-0001-8899-078X, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 399-427 |
| Publication date | 2008-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Canadian Review of American Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-7720 • E-ISSN: 1710-114X |
| Publisher | University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3138/cras.38.3.399 |
| OpenAlex | W4253921273 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 8 |
This article examines the dynamics of father–son relationships and the problems of intergenerational collaboration in Art Spiegelman's Maus I and II, Seth and John Gallant's Bannock, Beans, and Black Tea: Memories of a Prince Edward Island Childhood during the Depression, and Chris Ware's Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth. All three authors are critically acclaimed cartoonists and graphic novelists who use the mixed medium of verbal–visual narratives to tell stories about biological and symbolic fathers. These works reject dominant notions of masculinity and fatherhood through various forms of collaborative auto/biography and intergenerational semi-auto/biography that gravitate towards an aesthetics of smallness. The article concludes that, even as these three projects stage a reconciliation between fathers and sons, past and present, public and private, they nevertheless question the politics and practices of representing self and other in popular graphic form
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Biography · Comics · Literature · Masculinity · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Comics and Graphic Narratives · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · History · Law · Psychology · Themes in Literature Analysis
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.36 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2021 (7) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |