The Graphic Lives of Fathers Memory Representation and Fatherhood in North American Autobiographical Comics 1st Edition by Mihaela Precup 3030362175 9783030362188

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• ISBN 10:3030362175
• ISBN 13:9783030362188
• Author:Mihaela Precup

This book explores the representation of fatherhood in contemporary North American autobiographical comics that depict paternal conduct from the post-war period up to the present. It offers equal space to autobiographical comics penned by daughters who represent their fathers’ complicated and often disappointing behavior, and to works by male cartoonists who depict and usually celebrate their own experiences as fathers. This book asks questions about how the desire to forgive or be forgiven can compromise the authors’ ethics or dictate style, considers the ownership of life stories whose subjects cannot or do not agree to be represented, and investigates the pervasive and complicated effects of dominant masculinities. By close reading these cartoonists’ complex strategies of (self-)representation, this volume also places photography and archival work alongside the problematic legacy of self-deprecation carried on from underground comics, and shows how the vocabulary of graphic narration can work with other media and at the intersection of various genres and modes to produce a valuable scrutiny of contemporary norms of fatherhood.

Table contents:

1. Introduction: Comics, Fatherhood, and Autobiographical Representation
2. “A good and decent man”: Fatherhood, Trauma, and Post-War Masculinity in Carol Tyler’s Soldier’s Heart
3. “He was there to catch me when I leapt”: Paternal Absence and Artistic Emancipation in Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home
4. “As long as he was there, I felt safe”: Fatherhood, Deception, and Detective Work in Laurie Sandell’s The Impostor’s Daughter
5. “To dream of birds”: The Father as Potential Perpetrator in Nina Bunjevac’s “August, 1977” and Fatherland
6. “A doting fool”: The Limits of Fatherhood in R. Crumb’s Sophie Stories
7. “Emasculated by the diaper bag”: Aging, Masculinity, and Fatherhood in Joe Ollmann’s Mid-Life
8. “When the monsters come jello them”: Fatherhood, Vulnerability, and the Magic of the Mundane in James Kochalka’s American Elf
9. “You tell your father he did a good job”: Sons, Fathers, and Intergenerational Dynamics in Jeffrey Brown’s A Matter of Life
10. Conclusion

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