Disability in comic books and graphic narratives. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Chris Foss, Jonathan W. Gray and Zach Whalen.
• Editors: Foss, Chris, 1963-; Gray, Jonathan W; Whalen, Zach, 1979-
• Contents: Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; Foreword by Rosemarie Garland-Thomson; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: From Feats of Clay to Narrative Prose/thesis; 1 Mutable Articulations: Disability Rhetorics and the Comics Medium; 2 "When you have no voice, you don't exist"?: Envisioning Disability in David Small's Stitches; 3 The Hidden Architecture of Disability: Chris Ware's Building Stories; 4 Standing Orders: Oracle, Disability, and Retconning; 5 Drawing Disability: Superman, Huntington's, and the Comic Form in It's a Bird ... 6 Reading in Pictures: Re-visioning Autism and Literature through the Medium of Manga7 Graphic Violence in Word and Image: Reimagining Closure in The Ride Together; 8 "Why Couldn't You Let Me Die?": Cyborg, Social Death, and Narratives of Black Disability; 9 "You Only Need Three Senses for This": The Disruptive Potentiality of Cyborg Helen Keller; 10 Cripping the Bat: Troubling Images of Batman; 11 Breaking Up [at/with] Illness Narratives; 12 Thinking through Thea: Alison Bechdel's Representations of Disability; Index.
• Publisher Details: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 741.5/9; Comic books, strips, etc -- History and criticism; Graphic novels -- History and criticism; People with disabilities in literature; ART -- Techniques -- Drawing; Comic books, strips, etc; Graphic novels; People with disabilities in literature; Electronic books; Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137501110; 1137501111
• Related ISBNs: 9781137501103
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed April 15, 2016).
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.