The Graphic Lives of Fathers: Memory, Representation, and Fatherhood in North American Autobiographical Comics de Mihaela Precup

The Graphic Lives of Fathers: Memory, Representation, and Fatherhood in North American Autobiographical Comics: Palgrave Studies in Comics and Graphic Novels

Autor Mihaela Precup

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This book explores the representation of fatherhood in contemporary North American autobiographical comics that depict paternal conduct from the post-war period up to the present. It offers equal space to autobiographical comics penned by daughters who represent their fathers’ complicated and often disappointing behavior, and to works by male cartoonists who depict and usually celebrate their own experiences as fathers. This book asks questions about how the desire to forgive or be forgiven can compromise the authors’ ethics or dictate style, considers the ownership of life stories whose subjects cannot or do not agree to be represented, and investigates the pervasive and complicated effects of dominant masculinities. By close reading these cartoonists’ complex strategies of (self-)representation, this volume also places photography and archival work alongside the problematic legacy of self-deprecation carried on from underground comics, and shows how the vocabulary of graphic narration can work with other media and at the intersection of various genres and modes to produce a valuable scrutiny of contemporary norms of fatherhood.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9783030362201
ISBN-10: 3030362205
Pagini: 244
Ilustrații: XVI, 244 p. 21 illus., 14 illus. in color.
Dimensiuni: 148 x 210 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Ediția:1st ed. 2020
Editura: Springer International Publishing
Colecția Palgrave Macmillan
Seria Palgrave Studies in Comics and Graphic Novels

Locul publicării:Cham, Switzerland

Cuprins

1. Introduction Comics, Fatherhood, and Autobiographical Representation.- 2. “A Good and Decent Man”: Fatherhood, Trauma, and Post-War Masculinity in Carol Tyler’s Soldier’s Heart.- 3. “He was there to catch me when I leapt”: Paternal Absence and Artistic Emancipation in Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home.- 4. “As long as he was there, I felt safe”: Fatherhood, Deception, and Detective Work in Laurie Sandell’s The Impostor’s Daughter.- 5. “To Dream of Birds”: The Father as Potential Perpetrator in Nina Bunjevac’s “August 1977” and Fatherland.- 6. “A Doting Fool”: The Limits of Fatherhood in R. Crumb’s Sophie Stories.- 7. “Emasculated by the Diaper Bag”: Aging, Masculinity, and Fatherhood in Joe Ollmann’s Mid-Life.- 8. “When the Monsters Come Jello Them”: Fatherhood, Vulnerability, and the Magic of the Mundane in James Kochalka’s American Elf.- 9. “You Tell Your Father He Did a Good Job”: Sons, Fathers, and Inter-generational Dynamics in Jeffrey Brown’s A Matter of Life.- 10. Conclusion.

Recenzii

“It is a fluently written and thoroughly researched book that provides insightful and accessible analysis of autobiographical comics … . The book is an excellent introduction not only to autobiographical comics dealing with fatherhood and patriarchy but also the field as a whole. … Always clear and incisive, the book serves as an exemplary introduction for those at undergraduate level, but also as a model for detailed analysis of given graphic novels applicable to scholars at any level.” (David Huxley, Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, November 6, 2021)

“The Graphic Lives of Fathersis an important addition to scholarship on recent autobiographical comics. Precup is an insightful reader, attentive to visual details, and her discussion of the photographs and silhouettes that inhabit many of the works ties beautifully to her focus on representations of the self. … In creating this astute gender analysis of twenty-first century autobiographical comics, Mihaela Precup makes a valuable addition to this vibrant field.” (Carolyn Kyler, Biography, Vol. 43 (4), 2020)

Notă biografică

Mihaela Precup is Associate Professor in the American Studies Program at the University of Bucharest, where she teaches American visual and popular culture, as well as contemporary American literature and comics studies.

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“This book makes a high-quality and original contribution to the field…Mihaela Precup demonstrates a superb grasp of the scholarship in the fields of Comics Studies and autobiography studies and related areas, and the works analyzed combine widely studied examples such as Fun Home with less well discussed works such as the comics of Joe Ollmann. …Her close readings are selective and analytical, adding both depth and context to the works under discussion.”
--Ian Hague, Contextual and Theoretical Studies Coordinator, London College of Communication, University of the Arts London, UK
This book explores the representation of fatherhood in contemporary North American autobiographical comics that depict paternal conduct from the post-war period up to the present. It offers equal space to autobiographical comics penned by daughters who represent their fathers’ complicated and often disappointing behavior, and to works by male cartoonists who depict and usually celebrate their own experiences as fathers. This book asks questions about how the desire to forgive or be forgiven can compromise the authors’ ethics or dictate style, considers the ownership of life stories whose subjects cannot or do not agree to be represented, and investigates the pervasive and complicated effects of dominant masculinities. By close reading these cartoonists’ complex strategies of (self-)representation, this volume also places photography and archival work alongside the problematic legacy of self-deprecation carried on from underground comics, and shows how the vocabulary of graphic narration can work with other media and at the intersection of various genres and modes to produce a valuable scrutiny of contemporary norms of fatherhood.
Mihaela Precup is an Associate Professor in the American Studies Program at the University of Bucharest, where she teaches American visual and popular culture, as well as contemporary American literature andcomics studies.

Caracteristici

Uses an interdisciplinary lens at the nexus between Comics Studies and Memory Studies Argues that autobiographical comics about fatherhood hold a unique position for the graphic representation of oneself as other, and thus tests the limits of both the vocabulary of comics and (auto)biographical representation Covers a wide range of comics, from the work of much-discussed cartoonists (such as Alison Bechdel or Robert Crumb) to artists whose work has not yet received sufficient critical attention (such as Carol Tyler or Joe Ollmann)