{"product_id":"canadian-graphic-picturing-life-narratives-paperback-softback-9781771121798","title":"Canadian Graphic; Picturing Life Narratives (Paperback \/ softback) 9781771121798","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eCanadian Graphic\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003ePicturing Life Narratives\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eCandida Rifkind (Edited by), Linda Warley (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781771121798\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 20 May 2016\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e320 pages\u003cbr\u003e26 x 17.1 x 2.5 cm, 0.575 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCanadian Graphic: Picturing Life Narratives\u003c\/i\u003e presents critical essays on contemporary Canadian cartoonists working in graphic life narrative, from confession to memoir to biography. The contributors draw on literary theory, visual studies, and cultural history to show how Canadian cartoonists have become so prominent in the international market for comic books based on real-life experiences. The essays explore the visual styles and storytelling techniques of Canadian cartoonists, as well as their shared concern with the spectacular vulnerability of the self. \u003ci\u003eCanadian Graphic\u003c\/i\u003e also considers the role of graphic life narratives in reimagining the national past, including Indigenous-settler relations, both world wars, and Quebec's Quiet Revolution.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eContributors use a range of approaches to analyze the political, aesthetic, and narrative tensions in these works between self and other, memory and history, individual and collective. An original contribution to the study of auto\/biography, alternative comics, and Canadian print culture, \u003ci\u003eCanadian Graphic\u003c\/i\u003e proposes new ways of reading the intersection of comics and auto\/ biography both within and across national boundaries.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eTable of Contents for \u003ci\u003eCanadian Graphic: Picturing Life Narratives\u003c\/i\u003e, edited by Candida Rifkind and Linda Warley\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEditors' Introduction  Candida Rifkind and Linda Warley\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart One: Confession and the Relational Self\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1. Public Dialogues: Intimacy and Judgment in Canadian Confessional Comics  Kevin Ziegler\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e2. Untangling the Graphic Power of \u003ci\u003eTangles: A Story about Alzheimer's, My Mother, and Me\u003c\/i\u003e  Kathleen Venema\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e3. \"\"Oh Well\"\": \u003ci\u003eMy New York Diary\u003c\/i\u003e, Autographics, and the Depiction of Female Sexuality in Comics  J. Andrew Deman\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e4. \"\"Say 'Shit' Chester\"\": Language, Alienation, and the Aesthetic in Chester Brown's \u003ci\u003eI Never Liked You: A Comic-Strip Narrative\u003c\/i\u003e  James C. Hall\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Two: Collective Memory and Visual Biography\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e5. Personal, Vernacular, Canadian: Seth's \u003ci\u003eGreat Northern Brotherhood of Canadian Cartoonists\u003c\/i\u003e as Life Writing  Kathleen Dunley\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e6. Visual Silence and Graphic Memory: An Interdisciplinary Approach to \u003ci\u003eTwo Generals\u003c\/i\u003e  Linda Warley and Alan Filewood\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e7. Metabiography and Black Visuality in Ho Che Anderson's \u003ci\u003eKing\u003c\/i\u003e  Candida Rifkind\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Three: The Child and the Nation\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e8. Unsettling and Restorying Canadian Indigenous-Settler Histories in David Alexander Robertson's \u003ci\u003eThe Life of Helen Betty Osborne\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSugar Falls\u003c\/i\u003e  Doris Wolf\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e9. Life in Boxes: History, Pedagogy, and Nation-Building in Canadian Biographics for Young Adults  Eva C. Karpinski\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e10. \"\"Everybody calls me Roch\"\": \u003ci\u003eHarvey, The Hockey Sweater\u003c\/i\u003e, and the Invisible Québécois Child  Cheryl Cowdy\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Wilfrid Laurier University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52637471441176,"sku":"9781771121798","price":24.37,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/canadian-graphic-picturing-life-narratives-paperback-softback-9781771121798","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}