The American Graphic Memoir: An Introduction

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Editura Universităţii din Bucureşti, 2013 - 158 pagini

This volume examines the contribution made to memory, trauma, and autobiography studies by the American graphic memoir, a full-length autobiographical narrative in comic book form. Alternative comics, with their roots in the American underground tradition, manage to communicate the factitiousness of received systems of representation that sponsor the status quo. This makes the graphic memoir an important sub-genre of autobiographical representation, and particularly relevant for those personal narratives whose apparent wholeness is broken by a traumatic episode that lays bare the frames of perception and recognition of the subject.

 

Despre autor (2013)

Mihaela Precup is an Associate Professor in the American Studies Program at the University of Bucharest, Romania. Her main research interests include American graphic narratives, memory, trauma and autobiography studies. Her most recent publications are Mourning Women. Post-mortem Dialogues in Contemporary American Autobiography (University of Bucharest Press, 2014) and “The Image of the Foreigner in Historical Romanian Comics under Ceauşescu’s Dictatorship” (in Ayaka, Carolene and Ian Hague (eds.).  Representing Multiculturalism in Comics and Graphic Novels. London: Routledge/Taylor and Francis, 2014). She guest edited (with Rebecca Scherr) a special issue on War and Conflict of The Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics (Routledge, June 2015)

 

Informații bibliografice

TitluThe American Graphic Memoir: An Introduction
AutorMihaela Precup
EditorEditura Universităţii din Bucureşti, 2013
ISBN6061603649, 9786061603640
Lungime158 pagini
  
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