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Autobiographical Comics Life Writing in Pictures

Paperback • 2012 • English

Autobiographical Comics Life Writing in Pictures

By Elisabeth El Refaie

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About the book

A fruitful reading of the best North American and European autobiographical comics A troubled childhood in Iran. Living with a disability. Grieving for a dead child. Over the last forty years the comic book has become an increasingly popular way of telling personal stories of considerable complexity and depth. In Autobiographical Comics: Life Writing in Pictures, Elisabeth El Refaie offers a long overdue assessment of the key conventions, formal properties, and narrative patterns of this fascina...Show more

Graphic novel / Comic book / Manga: Memoirs, true stories and non-fiction
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Book details

ISBN

9781628461749

Publisher

University Press of Mississippi

Published year

2012

Language

English

Original title

Autobiographical Comics Life Writing in Pictures

Format

Paperback

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