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Graphic Subjects: Critical Essays on Autobiography and Graphic Novels
Some of the most noteworthy graphic novels and comic books of recent years have been entirely autobiographical. In
Graphic Subjects
, Michael A. Chaney brings together a lively mix of scholars to examine the use of autobiography within graphic novels, including such critically acclaimed examples as Art Spiegelman’s
Maus
, David Beauchard’s
Epileptic
, Marjane Satrapi’s
Persep
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Paperback
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336 pages
Published
March 1st 2011
by University of Wisconsin Press
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This is a decent enough set of essays on an array of autobiographical (more or less) comics. Some are too academic, suffering from pretnesion and jargon. Others are not academic enough, especially some of the short, more reflective pieces, which are in some instances simply too brief to be of much use. Several, however, are quite insightful indeed (e.g. Bart Beaty on the Toronto school of autobiography), very useful and interesting even if one has not read the comics in question. Still, and poss
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