| Description |
1 online resource (289 p.) |
| Series |
Routledge Advances in Comics Studies |
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Routledge Advances in Comics Studies
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| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Graphic Narratives and the Precarious Condition -- PART I: Representations of Precarious Youth in Graphic Fiction -- 1. The Ideological Depiction of Childhood during the Great Depression: From Little Orphan Annie to Little Lefty -- 2. Oppressive Structures and Childhood Precarity in The Witches: A Graphic Novel -- 3. Journey to Adulthood: Visual Representation of a Morphing Identity in Inio Asano's Goodnight Punpun |
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4. "A Malaise That We Don't Know What to Name": Cruel Optimism and Residual Disenchantment in Nadar'sEl mundo a tus pies (2015) -- 5. What Is Love?: Precarious Lives, Precarious Loves in the Works of Italian Women Graphic Novelists -- PART II: The Young Self in Crisis in (Auto)Biographic Comics -- 6. Uncertain Homes: Trauma, Fracture and Resilience in Roma Biographies from the "Children's Homes" in the Czech Republic -- 7. Finding Voice within the Objects of Their Lives: Adolescents Writing Memoir Comics to Interrogate Crisis -- PART III: Superheroic Precarity |
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8. Super-Precariat: Socioeconomic Fictions and Realities of Superhero Comic Books -- 9. "What Happens to a Dream Deferred?": Super Villains of African Descent in Classic Marvel Era -- PART IV: Surviving in a Precarious Market: Labour Insecurity and the Publishing Sector -- 10. Precarious Identity: Labelling Oneself Fumettista? -- 11. Amazing Ultradeformer Cartoonist from Ituzaingó: The Memes of Pedro Mancini -- 12. In Conversation with Vincent Giard: A Decade Taking Care of a Little Colossus -- PART V: Spaces of Vulnerability/Spaces of Action |
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13. Crises, New Modalities of Social Struggle and the Emergence of LGBTIQ+ Discourses as Revulsive and Autonomous Responses in the Field of Argentine Comics (2016-2020) -- 14. Cultural Otherness in Der Traum von Olympia(An Olympic Dream) -- 15. Wasted Potential, Disposable Bodies: The Many Victims of Backderf's My Friend Dahmer -- 16. Strike Comics: Representing the Inequities and Absurdities of Academic Precarity -- Index |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Subject |
Comic books, strips, etc. -- History and criticism
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Comic books, strips, etc. -- Social aspects
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Youth in comics
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Vilches, Gerardo
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| ISBN |
9781000653861 |
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1000653862 |
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