TY  - BOOK
AU  - Baldanzi,Jessica
TI  - Bodies and boundaries in graphic fiction: reading female and nonbinary characters 
T2  - Routledge studies in gender, sexuality, and comics
SN  - 9780367679477
U1  - 741.535220973 
KW  - Comic books, strips, etc
KW  - United States
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Women in comics
KW  - Human body in literature
KW  - Human figure in art
KW  - Gender identity in comics
KW  - Comics criticism
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Art criticism
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - "This book examines the fictional female bodies of four stylistically distinct comics artists in the US-Chris Ware, Emil Ferris, Ebony Flowers, and Tillie Walden-whose work has attracted significant attention. These bodies showcase how comics and its unique visual language can both critique and re-envision some of the most challenging social issues of our time. The characters analyzed in this book illustrate diverse techniques for projecting the complex humanity and "truth" of US women's unruly bodies onto a two-dimensional page. All of the protagonists qualify as "outsider" in some way, whether by gender identity, sexuality, ability, religion, race, class, ethnicity, age, or a combination of these and other categories. These bodily expressions of outsider identity both resist traditional categorization and stereotypes, and sometimes harness and employ those stereotypes for the purposes of parody or social critique. The language of comics affords a unique opportunity for complex representation of these disparate women's bodies, especially when comics artists use the full range of tools at their disposal, such as style, materials, narrative direction, the space of the gutter, and the friction between word and image. This is an a timely and important intervention suitable for researchers and students in comics studies, gender studies, literature and queer studies"--
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