Performativity Cultural Construction and the Graphic Narrative

<p><em>Performativity, Cultural Construction, and the Graphic Narrative</em> draws on performance studies scholarship to understand the social impact of graphic novels and their sociopolitical function.</p><p></p><p>Addressing issues of race, gender, ethnicity, race, war, mental illness, and the environment, the volume encompasses the diversity and variety inherent in the graphic narrative medium. Informed by the scholarship of Dwight Conquergood and his model for performance praxis, this collection of essays makes links between these seemingly disparate areas of study to open new avenues of research for comics and graphic narratives. An international team of authors offer a detailed analysis of new and classical graphic texts from Britain, Iran, India, and Canada as well as the United States. </p><p></p><p>Performance, Social Construction and the Graphic Narrative draws on performance studies scholarship to understand the social impact of graphic novels and their sociopolitical function. Addressing issues of race, gender, ethnicity, race, war, mental illness, and the environment, the volume encompasses the diversity and variety inherent in the graphic narrative medium. This book will be of interest to students and scholars in the areas of communication, literature, comics studies, performance studies, sociology, languages, English, and gender studies, and anyone with an interest in deepening their acquaintance with and understanding of the potential of graphic narratives.</p> <p>Chapter 1: Introduction, or Transformations and the Performance of Text and Image <b>Part I: Mimesis</b> Chapter 2: "Did You Kill Anyone?": The Pathography of PTSD in <i>The White Donkey </i>Chapter 3: I Don’t Have Any Ancestors, OK? Let’s Just Drop It: Miss America and (Pan)Latinx Representation in Marvel’s <i>America</i> Chapter 4: Space, Conflict and Memory in <i>Shaft: A Complicated Man</i> Chapter 5: Illustrating Mental Illness and Engaging Empathy Through Graphic Memoir <b>Part II: Poiesis</b> Chapter 6: Mapping the Nation and Reimagining Home in Vietnamese American Graphic Narratives Chapter 7: "Real Men Don’t Smash Little Girls": Inter-Hero Violence, Families, Masculinity, and Contemporary Superheroes Chapter 8: Graphic Performances in Octavia Butler’s <i>Kindred</i> Chapter 9: Austen’s Audience(s) and the Perils of Adaptation <b>Part III: Kinesis</b> Chapter 10: Graphical, Radical Women: Revising Boundaries, Re(Image)ining <i>Écriture Féminine</i> in the Novels of Bechdel and Satrapi Chapter 11: Bridging the Gutter: Cultural Construction of Gender Sensitivity in Select Indian Graphic Narratives after Nirbhaya Chapter 12: "There Are No Monsters Like Us": Gothic Horror, Lesbianism, and the Female Body in Marguerite Bennett and Ariela Kristantina’s <i>InSEXts</i> Chapter 13: (De)Forging Canadian Identity in Michael DeForge's <i>Sticks Angelica, Folk Hero </i>Chapter 14: A Killer Rhetoric of Alternatives: Re/Framing Monstrosity in <i>My Friend Dahmer</i> Chapter 15: The Contextualization of the Palestinian Experience in Joe Sacco’s Comics Journalism</p>