Precarious Youth in Contemporary Graphic Narratives

Precarious Youth in Contemporary Graphic Narratives

Young Lives in Crisis

Sanchez, Maria Porras; Vilches, Gerardo

Taylor & Francis Ltd

10/2024

270

Mole

9781032126739

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List of Figures; List of Contributors; Acknowledgments; 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's El 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; Part IV Surviving in a Precarious Market: Labour Insecurity and the Publishing Sector; 10. Precarious Identity: Labelling Oneself Fumettista?; 11. Amazing Ultradeformer Cartoonist from Ituzaingo: The Memes of Pedro Mancini; 12. In Conversation with Vicent 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
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