1st Edition
Performativity, Cultural Construction, and the Graphic Narrative
Performativity, Cultural Construction, and the Graphic Narrative draws on performance studies scholarship to understand the social impact of graphic novels and their sociopolitical function.
Addressing issues of race, gender, ethnicity, race, war, mental illness, and the environment, the volume encompasses the diversity and variety inherent in the graphic narrative medium. Informed by the scholarship of Dwight Conquergood and his model for performance praxis, this collection of essays makes links between these seemingly disparate areas of study to open new avenues of research for comics and graphic narratives. An international team of authors offer a detailed analysis of new and classical graphic texts from Britain, Iran, India, and Canada as well as the United States.
Performance, Social Construction and the Graphic Narrative draws on performance studies scholarship to understand the social impact of graphic novels and their sociopolitical function. Addressing issues of race, gender, ethnicity, race, war, mental illness, and the environment, the volume encompasses the diversity and variety inherent in the graphic narrative medium. This book will be of interest to students and scholars in the areas of communication, literature, comics studies, performance studies, sociology, languages, English, and gender studies, and anyone with an interest in deepening their acquaintance with and understanding of the potential of graphic narratives.
Chapter 1: Introduction, or Transformations and the Performance of Text and Image
Leigh Anne Howard and Susanna Hoeness-Krupsaw
Part I: Mimesis
Chapter 2: "Did You Kill Anyone?": The Pathography of PTSD in The White Donkey
Melissa M. Caldwell
Chapter 3: I Don’t Have Any Ancestors, OK? Let’s Just Drop It: Miss America and (Pan)Latinx Representation in Marvel’s America
Grace Martin
Chapter 4: Space, Conflict and Memory in Shaft: A Complicated Man
Chris Ruíz-Velasco
Chapter 5: Illustrating Mental Illness and Engaging Empathy Through Graphic Memoir
Alissa Burger
Part II: Poiesis
Chapter 6: Mapping the Nation and Reimagining Home in Vietnamese American Graphic Narratives
Winona Landis
Chapter 7: "Real Men Don’t Smash Little Girls": Inter-Hero Violence, Families, Masculinity, and Contemporary Superheroes
Sara Austin
Chapter 8: Graphic Performances in Octavia Butler’s Kindred
Susanna Hoeness-Krupsaw
Chapter 9: Austen’s Audience(s) and the Perils of Adaptation
Leigh Anne Howard
Part III: Kinesis
Chapter 10: Graphical, Radical Women: Revising Boundaries, Re(Image)ining Écriture Féminine in the Novels of Bechdel and Satrapi
Melanie Lee
Chapter 11: Bridging the Gutter: Cultural Construction of Gender Sensitivity in Select Indian Graphic Narratives after Nirbhaya
Partha Bhattacharjee and Priyanka Tripathi
Chapter 12: "There Are No Monsters Like Us": Gothic Horror, Lesbianism, and the Female Body in Marguerite Bennett and Ariela Kristantina’s InSEXts
Michelle D. Wise
Chapter 13: (De)Forging Canadian Identity in Michael DeForge's Sticks Angelica, Folk Hero
Jamie Ryan
Chapter 14: A Killer Rhetoric of Alternatives: Re/Framing Monstrosity in My Friend Dahmer
Alane L. Presswood
Chapter 15: The Contextualization of the Palestinian Experience in Joe Sacco’s Comics Journalism
Chad Tew
Biography
Leigh Anne Howard studies the performance of personal and social identity, as well as performance methodology. She has published articles in Text and Performance Quarterly, Journal of Applied Communication Research, Communication Education, the American Behavioral Scientist, the Journal of Intercultural Communication, and the Journal of Fandom Studies.
Susanna Hoeness-Krupsaw teaches English and Humanities at the University of Southern Indiana. Her research interests include American and Canadian literature and the graphic novel. She has recently published on "The Role of Talk Story in Maxine Hong Kingston and Amy Tan," "Teaching March in the Borderlands between Social Justice and Pop Culture" and "Mary Gordon."
