1st Edition
Queer Narratives in Contemporary American Comics Gutter Smut
List of figures; Preface; Chapter 1: The Dream of a Common Visual Language: Reading Sex, Gender and Sexuality through Comics Formalism in the Early 21st Century; Chapter 2: “I Just Don’t Know How to Explain Myself:” Liminality, Narrative Foreclosure and Censorship in Comics Memoirs by Alison Bechdel and Maia Kobabe; Chapter 3: Illustrated User Manuals for Adolescent Bodies: The Sex Positive Rhetoric of Recent Young Adult Comics for Sexual Health Education; Chapter 4: “Language is a Map:” Transtextuality, Transculturality and Belonging in Coming-Out Narratives by Laura Gao and Trung Le Nguyen; Chapter 5: Caging Father Earth’s Unruly Daughters: Critiques of the Carceral State and Abolitionist Feminist Aesthetics in Bitch Planet; Index.
Biography
Sandra Cox is a professor at Southeast Missouri State University. Her work has been published in a variety of journals, including The Journal of Science Fiction and The Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics. In 2021, she edited the collection Intersectional Feminist Readings of Comics.
