Canadian graphic : picturing life narratives

Rifkind, Candida, 1972- (editor.). Warley, Linda, (editor.).

Summary: "It's about contemporary Canadian cartoonists who are working in graphic life narrative, from confession to memoir to biography. The volume draws on literary theory, visual studies, and cultural history to examine how and why Canadian cartoonists have become so prominent in the international market for comic books based on real-life experiences."--

Record details

ISBN: 9781771121798
ISBN: 1771121793
Physical Description: print
viii, 305 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm.
Publisher: Waterloo, Ontario, Canada : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, [2016]
Copyright: ©2016.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Part 1. Confession and the relational self: Public dialogues: intimacy and judgment in Canadian confessional comics / Kevin Ziegler ; Untangling the graphic power of tangles: a story about Alzheimer's, my mother, and me / Kathleen Venema ; "Oh well": my New York diary, autographics, and the depiction of female sexuality in comics / J. Andrew Deman ; "Say 'shit' Chester": language, alienation, and the aesthetic in Chester Brown's I never liked you: a comic-strip narrative / James C. Hall -- Part 2. Collective memory and visual biography: Personal, vernacular, Canadian: Seth's great northern brotherhood of Canadian cartoonists as life writing / Kathleen Dunley ; Visual silence and graphic memory: an interdisciplinary approach to two generals / Linda Warley and Alan Filewood ; Metabiography and black visuality in Ho Che Anderson's King / Candida Rifkind -- Part 3. The child and the nation: Unsettling and restorying Canadian indigenous-settler histories in David Alexander Robertson's The life of Helen Betty Osborne and Sugar falls / Doris Wolf ; Life in boxes: history, pedagogy, and nation-building in Canadian biographics for young adults / Eva C. Karpinski ; "Everybody calls me Roch": Harvey, the hockey sweater, and the invisible Québécois child / Cheryl Cowdy.