Graphic Embodiments : Perspectives on Health and Embodiment in Graphic Narratives PDF

Graphic narratives' singular capacity to representhuman embodiment

Comics and other graphic narrativespowerfully represent embodied experiences that are difficult to express inlanguage. A group of authors from various countries and disciplines explore theunique capacity of graphic narratives to represent human embodiment as well asthe relation of human bodies to the worlds they inhabit. Using works fromillustrated scientific texts to contemporary comics across national traditions,we discover how the graphic narrative can shed new light on everydayexperiences. Essays examine topics that are easily recognized as anchored in thebody as well as experiences like migration and concepts like environmental degradationand compassion that emanate from or impact on our embodied states.

Graphic Embodiments is of interest toscholars and students across various interdisciplinary fields including comicsstudies, gender and sexuality studies, visual and cultural studies, disabilitystudies and health and medical humanities.

Contributors:Frederick Luis Aldama (Ohio State University), Jodi Cressman (DominicanUniversity), Lisa DeTora (Hofstra University), KJ Dykstra (University ofManitoba), Antonio J. Ferraro (Ohio State University), Carl Fisher (CaliforniaState University at Long Beach), Barbara Grüning (University of Milan Bicocca),Jordana Greenblat (York University), Alison Halsall (York University), MichaelJ. Klein (James Madison University), Jeannie Ludlow (Eastern IllinoisUniversity), Lauren Rizzuto (Tufts University), Evelyn Rogers (MoorparkCollege), Shreya Sengai (Northeastern University)

This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content).