Titlebook: Disability in Comic Books and Graphic Narratives; Chris Foss (Professor of English),Jonathan W. Gray Book 2016 The Editor(s) (if applicabl

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,Drawing Disability: Superman, Huntington’s, and the Comic Form in , …,ralleled physical and ethical prowess. Neither his heroic progeny nor his creators, however, could fully emulate the ideals he embodies; superheroes have grown darker and more ambiguous, their heroism less straightforward and unproblematic, while the embodied lives involved in Superman’s legacy have

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Reading in Pictures: Re-visioning Autism and Literature through the Medium of Manga,ntly translated into pictures” (19). While Grandin does grant “not all people with autism are highly visual thinkers” and “people throughout the world are on a continuum of visualization skills” (28), she nonetheless believes most autistics “think in visual images” (25) and rely on “visual thinking

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Graphic Violence in Word and Image: Reimagining Closure in , Elaine Scarry, for example, identifies an “inexpressibility” and “unsharability” of pain that can make pain difficult to communicate or represent, especially in instances of extreme violence (3–4). However, as Scarry notes, one aspect of language that can make pain more representable is the use of

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,“Why Couldn’t You Let Me Die?”: Cyborg, Social Death, and Narratives of Black Disability, their own team of late-adolescent outcasts, and succeeded with . emerging as one of DC’s top-selling books for most of the 1980s. Wolfman and Pérez created several new characters for the series: the alien warrior princess Starfire, the mystical and tragic Raven, and Victor Stone (also known as Cybo

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,“You Only Need Three Senses for This”: The Disruptive Potentiality of Cyborg Helen Keller,eloved historical figure whose image has been co-opted to deliver a sentimental tale about perseverance over adversity. The pictorial mythology keeps Keller frozen in adolescence, ignores the radical pursuits of her adult life, and renders her into an asexual and a passive participant in her own nar

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Breaking Up [at/with] Illness Narratives,ions that continue to inform writing about illness. Specifically, the genres of autobiographical comics and illness narratives, when brought together, form a subgenre of graphic novels that disrupt several imperatives inherited from ancient rhetoric for confessional writing. Such classical imperativ

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,Thinking through Thea: Alison Bechdel’s Representations of Disability,ulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence” by developing a parallel concept of compulsory able-bodiedness, McRuer argued that both of these compulsory identities are “contingent” on each other and produce strain on physical bodies (89). By bringing queer theory and disability studies into convers

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