Disability in Comic Books and Graphic Narratives

Author:   C. Foss ,  J. Gray ,  Zach Whalen
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   1st ed. 2016
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9781137501103


Pages:   216
Publication Date:   23 February 2016
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As there has yet to be any substantial scrutiny of the complex confluences a more sustained dialogue between disability studies and comics studies might suggest, Disability in Comic Books and Graphic Narratives aims through its broad range of approaches and focus points to explore this exciting subject in productive and provocative ways.

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Author:   C. Foss ,  J. Gray ,  Zach Whalen
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   1st ed. 2016
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   3.992kg
ISBN:  

9781137501103


ISBN 10:   1137501103
Pages:   216
Publication Date:   23 February 2016
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Foreword; Rosemarie Garland-Thomson 1. Introduction: From Feats of Clay to Narrative Prose/thesis; Zach Whalen, Chris Foss, and Jonathan W. Gray 2. Mutable Articulations: Disability Rhetorics and the Comics Medium; Jay Dolmage and Dale Jacobs 3. 'when you have no voice, you don't exist'? Envisioning Disability in David Small's Stitches; Christina Maria Koch 4. The Hidden Architecture of Disability: Chris Ware's Building Stories; Todd A. Comer 5. Standing Orders: Oracle, Disability, and Retconning; José Alaniz 6. Drawing Disability: Superman, Huntington's, and the Comic Form in It's a Bird…; Mariah Crilley 7. Reading in Pictures: Re-Visioning Autism and Literature through the Medium of Manga; Chris Foss 8. Graphic Violence in Word and Image: Re-Imagining Closure in The Ride Together; Shannon Walters 9. 'Why Couldn't You Let Me Die?': Cyborg, Social Death, and Narratives of Disability; Jonathan W. Gray 10. 'You Only Need Three Senses for This': The Disruptive Potentiality of Cyborg Helen Keller; Laurie Ann Carlson 11. Cripping the Bat: Troubling Images of Batman; Daniel Preston 12. Breaking Up [at/with] Illness Narratives; Kristen Gay 13. Thinking through Thea: Alison Bechdel's Representations of Disability; Margaret Galvan Index

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Foss (Mary Washington), Gray (CUNY), and Whalen (Mary Washington) offer an ambitious cross-disciplinary collection bringing disability studies theories to bear on the burgeoning genre of graphic literature. ... The work is useful for several disciplines including disability studies, graphic literature, psychology, and popular culture. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division Undergraduates through faculty. (M. F. McClure, Choice, Vol. 54 (6), February, 2017) Foss, Gray, and Whalen provide comics scholars, as well as those located in such related fields as children's literature and visual rhetoric, the opportunity to think critically about key issues in disability studies and their particular representation in hybrid visual-verbal texts. ... This collection captures the urgency of the intersection of comics and disability, and the absence of non-American comics texts suggests an opportunity for the discussion to continue developing further through various national and cultural perspectives. (Charles Acheson, The Lion and the Unicorn, Vol. 41 (1), January, 2017)


This collection of essays can undoubtedly serve as a useful entry into both the fields of disability studies in general and disability in comic books in particular. ... the essays manage to provide a variety of insights into genres ranging from personal memoir to superhero comics. ... the collection shows the wide applicability of disability studies that could be useful not only to scholars of comics books, but also to experts of children's literature and visual arts. (Nikola Novakovic, Libri & Liberi, Vol. 10 (1), 2021) Foss (Mary Washington), Gray (CUNY), and Whalen (Mary Washington) offer an ambitious cross-disciplinary collection bringing disability studies theories to bear on the burgeoning genre of graphic literature. ... The work is useful for several disciplines including disability studies, graphic literature, psychology, and popular culture. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division Undergraduates through faculty. (M. F. McClure, Choice, Vol. 54 (6), February, 2017) Foss, Gray, and Whalen provide comics scholars, as well as those located in such related fields as children's literature and visual rhetoric, the opportunity to think critically about key issues in disability studies and their particular representation in hybrid visual-verbal texts. ... This collection captures the urgency of the intersection of comics and disability, and the absence of non-American comics texts suggests an opportunity for the discussion to continue developing further through various national and cultural perspectives. (Charles Acheson, The Lion and the Unicorn, Vol. 41 (1), January, 2017)


“This collection of essays can undoubtedly serve as a useful entry into both the fields of disability studies in general and disability in comic books in particular. … the essays manage to provide a variety of insights into genres ranging from personal memoir to superhero comics. … the collection shows the wide applicability of disability studies that could be useful not only to scholars of comics books, but also to experts of children’s literature and visual arts.” (Nikola Novaković, Libri & Liberi, Vol. 10 (1), 2021) “Foss (Mary Washington), Gray (CUNY), and Whalen (Mary Washington) offer an ambitious cross-disciplinary collection bringing disability studies theories to bear on the burgeoning genre of graphic literature. … The work is useful for several disciplines including disability studies, graphic literature, psychology, and popular culture. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division Undergraduates through faculty.” (M. F. McClure, Choice, Vol. 54 (6), February, 2017)  “Foss, Gray, and Whalen provide comics scholars, as well as those located in such related fields as children’s literature and visual rhetoric, the opportunity to think critically about key issues in disability studies and their particular representation in hybrid visual-verbal texts. … This collection captures the urgency of the intersection of comics and disability, and the absence of non-American comics texts suggests an opportunity for the discussion to continue developing further through various national and cultural perspectives.” (Charles Acheson, The Lion and the Unicorn, Vol. 41 (1), January, 2017) 


Foss (Mary Washington), Gray (CUNY), and Whalen (Mary Washington) offer an ambitious cross-disciplinary collection bringing disability studies theories to bear on the burgeoning genre of graphic literature. ... The work is useful for several disciplines including disability studies, graphic literature, psychology, and popular culture. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division Undergraduates through faculty. (M. F. McClure, Choice, Vol. 54 (6), February, 2017) Foss, Gray, and Whalen provide comics scholars, as well as those located in such related fields as children's literature and visual rhetoric, the opportunity to think critically about key issues in disability studies and their particular representation in hybrid visual-verbal texts. ... This collection captures the urgency of the intersection of comics and disability, and the absence of non-American comics texts suggests an opportunity for the discussion to continue developing further through various national and cultural perspectives. (Charles Acheson, The Lion and the Unicorn, Vol. 41 (1), January, 2017)


Author Information

Chris Foss is Professor of English at the University of Mary Washington, USA, where he specializes in Nineteenth-Century British Literature, with a secondary expertise in disability studies. He is the author of over 20 scholarly publications and over 35 academic conference papers. Jonathan W. Gray is Associate Professor of English, John Jay College, CUNY, USA. He is editor of the Journal of Comics and Culture and author of Civil Rights in the White Literary Imagination (2013). He is currently working on Illustrating the Race: Representing Blackness in American Comics. Zach Whalen is Associate Professor of English, University of Mary Washington, USA, where he researches video games, comics, and electronic literature. He is the co-editor of Playing the Past: History and Nostalgia in Video Games (2008).

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