Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Autobiography is one of the most dynamic and quickly-growing genres in contemporary comics and graphic narratives. In Serial Selves, Frederik Byrn Køhlert examines the genre’s potential for representing lives and perspectives that have been socially marginalized or excluded. With a focus on the comics form’s ability to produce alternative and challenging autobiographical narratives, thematic chapters investigate the work of artists writing from perspectives of marginality including gender, sexuality, disability, and race, as well as trauma. Interdisciplinary in scope and attuned to theories and methods from both literary and visual studies, the book provides detailed formal analysis to show that the highly personal and hand-drawn aesthetics of comics can help artists push against established narrative and visual conventions, and in the process invent new ways of seeing and being seen. As the first comparative study of how comics artists from a wide range of backgrounds use the form to write and draw themselves into cultural visibility, Serial Selves will be of interest to anyone interested in the current boom in autobiographical comics, as well as issues of representation in comics and visual culture more broadly.

E-books --- Autobiographical comic books, strips, etc. --- Self-perception in art. --- Narrative art --- Art, Narrative --- Narrative art (Visual arts) --- Art genres --- Biographical comic books, strips, etc. --- History and criticism. --- Themes, motives. --- Comic book memoirs --- Comic strip memoirs --- Comics memoirs --- Graphic memoirs --- Memoirs, Comic book --- Memoirs, Comic strip --- Memoirs, Comics --- Memoirs, Graphic

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

This book defines tōjisha manga as Japan’s autobiographical comics in which the author recounts the experience of a mental or neurological condition in a unique medium of text and image. Yoshiko Okuyama argues that tōjisha manga illuminate otherwise “faceless” individuals and humanize their invisible tribulations because the first-person narrative makes their lived experience more authentic and relatable to the reader. Part I introduces the evolution of the term tōjisha, the tōjisha movements, and other relevant social phenomena and concepts. Part II analyzes five representative titles to demonstrate the humanizing power of tōjisha manga, drawing on interviews with the authors of these manga and examining how psychological or brain-related symptoms are artistically depicted in approximately 40 drawings. This book is highly recommended to not only scholars of disability studies and comic studies but also global fans of manga who are interested in the graphic memoirs of serious social issues. Yoshiko Okuyama is Professor of Japanese studies at the University of Hawai’i at Hilo, USA. Her recent publications include Japanese Mythology in Film: A Semiotic Approach to Reading Japanese Film and Anime (2015) and Reframing Disability in Manga (2020).

Autobiographical comic books, strips, etc. --- Mental illness in literature. --- Insanity in literature --- Psychopathology in literature --- Biographical comic books, strips, etc. --- Japan --- History. --- Comic book memoirs --- Comic strip memoirs --- Comics memoirs --- Graphic memoirs --- Memoirs, Comic book --- Memoirs, Comic strip --- Memoirs, Comics --- Memoirs, Graphic --- Ethnology --- Culture. --- Communication. --- Biotechnology. --- Popular Culture. --- Sex. --- Asian Culture. --- Media and Communication. --- Gender Studies. --- Asia. --- Gender (Sex) --- Human beings --- Human sexuality --- Sex (Gender) --- Sexual behavior --- Sexual practices --- Sexuality --- Sexology --- Culture, Popular --- Mass culture --- Pop culture --- Popular arts --- Communication --- Intellectual life --- Mass society --- Recreation --- Culture --- Chemical engineering --- Genetic engineering --- Communication, Primitive --- Mass communication --- Sociology --- Cultural sociology --- Sociology of culture --- Civilization --- Popular culture --- Social aspects