This volume explores comics as examples of moral outrage in the face of a reality in which precariousness has become an inherent part of young lives. Taking a thematic approach, the chapters devote attention to the expression and representation of precarious subjectivities, as well as to the economic and professional precarity that characterizes comics creation and production.
An international team of authors, young and senior systematically examines the representation of precarious youth in graphic fiction and autobiographic comics, superheroes and precarity, market issues and spaces of activism and vulnerability. With this structure, the book offers a global perspective and comprehensive coverage of different aspects of a complex and multifaceted field of knowledge, with a special attention to minorities and liminal subjects. The comics analyzed function as examples of "ethical solicitation" that bear witness of the precarious existence younger generations endure, while at the same time creating images that voice their outrage and might move readers to act.
This timely and truly interdisciplinary volume will appeal to comics scholars and researchers in the areas of media and cultural studies, modern languages, education, art and design, communication studies, sociology, medical humanities and more.
Author(s): María Porras Sánchez, Gerardo Vilches
Series: Routledge Advances in Comics Studies
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 288
City: London
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
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
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
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
