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“When you have no voice, you don’t exist”?: Envisioning Disability in David Small’s Stitches
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Abstract
The evolution of American autobiographical comics over the past decades has been increasingly accompanied by a strong trend toward subject matters of illness, disability, or more generally any physical or psychological traits perceived as deviations from the norm. As such, the popular form of “graphic memoir”1 is more and more linked to the history of literary illness narratives, and sometimes relabeled “graphic pathography” (Green and Myers). Ian Williams has aptly characterized graphic pathographies as “the intellectual, emotional and manual act of somatic self-expression” (“Portrayal” 74). Elisabeth El Refaie, among others,2 has shown that “picturing embodied selves” (Autobiographical 49) is, in fact, one of the central concerns in graphic memoirs altogether. She very instructively explains that comics artists producing autobiographical work are “in the unusual position of having to visually portray themselves over and over again [and are, thus,] constantly compelled to engage with their physical identities” (Autobiographical 62). In other words, the necessary continuous repetition of the cartoonist’s avatar on the page is enough to raise issues of embodiment in graphic memoirs in general, and these are even more strongly foregrounded in graphic pathographies.
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Comic Book Speech Impairment Comic Artist Disability Study Illness Narrative These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
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