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Canadian Graphic: Picturing Life Narratives
Candida Rifkind
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Description for Canadian Graphic: Picturing Life Narratives
Paperback. Editor(s): Rifkind, Candida; Warley, Linda. Num Pages: 320 pages, 62 colour illus. BIC Classification: DSB; FZG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 260 x 170 x 25. Weight in Grams: 560.
Canadian Graphic: Picturing Life Narratives 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. Canadian Graphic also considers the role of graphic life narratives in reimagining the national past, including Indigenousasettler relations, both world wars, ... Read more
Canadian Graphic: Picturing Life Narratives 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. Canadian Graphic also considers the role of graphic life narratives in reimagining the national past, including Indigenousasettler relations, both world wars, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
570g
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
ISBN
9781771121798
SKU
V9781771121798
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Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
About Candida Rifkind
Candida Rifkind is an associate professor in the Department of English, University of Winnipeg. She published Comrades and Critics: Women, Literature, and the Left in 1930s Canada (2009) and has chapters on graphic life narratives in Material Cultures in Canada (WLU Press, 2015), Canadian Literature and Cultural Memory (2014), and the journals Biography , International Journal of Comic Art , ... Read more
Reviews for Canadian Graphic: Picturing Life Narratives
An essential resource for anyone interested in Canadian comics, life writing, and political issues. Beautifully produced with a useful introduction and fascinating essays about major and emerging cartoonists in Canada and Quebec, Canadian Graphic puts the study of Canadian autobiographical and biographical comics on the academic map and shows us ways to think about one of the most exciting developments ... Read more