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PathoGraphics

Name: PathoGraphics
Brand: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
SKU: 9780271086187
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PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESSISBN: 9780271086187

Narrative, Aesthetics, Contention, Community

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Edited by Susan Merrill Squier, Irmela Marei Kruger-Furhoff
Imprint: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Release Date: August 14, 2020
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Pages: 248

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Culturally powerful ideas of normalcy and deviation, individual responsibility, and what is medically feasible shape the ways in which we live with illness and disability. The essays in this volume show how illness narratives expressed in a variety of formsbiographical essays, fictional texts, cartoons, graphic novels, and comicsreflect on and grapple with the fact that these human experiences are socially embedded and culturally shaped.

Works of fiction addressing the impact of an illness or disability; autobiographies and memoirs exploring an experience of medical treatment; and comics that portray illness or disability from the perspective of patient, family member, or caregiver: all of these narratives forge a specific aesthetic in order to communicate their understanding of the human condition. This collection demonstrates what can emerge when scholars and artists interested in fiction, life-writing, and comics collaborate to explore how various media portray illness, medical treatment, and disability. Rather than stopping at the limits of genre or medium, the essays talk across fields, exploring together how works in these different forms craft narratives and aesthetics to negotiate contention and build community around those experiences and to discover how the knowledge and experiences of illness and disability circulate within the realms of medicine, art, the personal, and the cultural. Ultimately, they demonstrate a common purpose: to examine the ways comics and literary texts build an audience and galvanize not just empathy but also action.

In addition to the editors, the contributors to this volume include Einat Avrahami, Maureen Burdock, Elizabeth J. Donaldson, Ariela Freedman, Rieke Jordan, stef lenk, Leah Misemer, Tahneer Oksman, Nina Schmidt, and Helen Spandler.

Introduction

Susan Merrill Squier and Irmela Marei Krüger-Fürhoff

1. The Reflecting Physician

Einat Avrahami

2. Assembling a Shared Life in Anders Nilsen’s Don’t Go Where I Can’t Follow

Tahneer Oksman

3. Ways of Looking: Reading PathoGraphics

Nina Schmidt

4. The Comics Pain Scale and Comics About Pain

Ariela Freedman

5. The Tightrope to Equilibrium: Parkinson’s Disease in Literature and Comics

Irmela Marei Krüger-Fürhoff

6. Her Leg”: Chris Ware’s Body of Work

Rieke Jordan

7. Crafting Psychiatric Contention Through Single-Panel Cartoons

Helen Spandler

8. Subverting Stigma: Community Building in Serial Comics

Leah Misemer

9. Psychosis Blues: Schizophrenia, Comics, and Collaboration

Elizabeth J. Donaldson

10. The Quickening

stef lenk

11. Interview with stef lenk on The Quickening

Irmela Marei Krüger-Fürhoff and Susan Merrill Squier

12. Desire Paths: PathoGraphics and Transgenerational Trauma

Maureen Burdock

13. Scaling Graphic Medicine: The Porous Pathography, a New Kind of Illness Narrative

Susan Merrill Squier

List of Contributors

Index

“PathoGraphics advances discussions about how to read, visualize, and create comics about illness and disability in complex and welcome ways. The contributors are extremely well-informed about the fields from which the book draws: narrative medicine, literary studies, disability studies, comics studies, and graphic medicine. PathoGraphics engagingly shows how these fields can mutually constitute new knowledge when creative practices, intersecting with illness and disability narratives, create a site for artistic innovation with a social justice bent.”

—Ann Fox, Davidson College

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