[Commlist] New book: Serial Selves: Identity and Representation in Autobiographical Comics

New book, entitled Serial Selves: Identity and Representation in 
Autobiographical Comics,
published by Rutgers UP.

Here’s the blurb from Rutgers:

Autobiography is one of the most dynamic and quickly-growing genres in 
contemporary comics and graphic narratives. In Serial Selves, Frederik 
Byrn Køhlert examines the genre’s potential for representing lives and 
perspectives that have been socially marginalized or excluded. With a 
focus on the comics form’s ability to produce alternative 
and challenging autobiographical narratives, thematic 
chapters investigate the work of artists writing from perspectives of 
marginality including gender, sexuality, disability, and race, as well 
as trauma. Interdisciplinary in scope and attuned to theories and 
methods from both literary and visual studies, the book provides 
detailed formal analysis to show that the highly personal and hand-drawn 
aesthetics of comics can help artists push against established narrative 
and visual conventions, and in the process invent new ways of seeing 
and being seen.

As the first comparative study of how comics artists from a wide range 
of backgrounds use the form to write and draw themselves into cultural 
visibility, Serial Selves will be of interest to anyone interested in 
the current boom in autobiographical comics, as well as issues of 
representation in comics and visual culture more broadly.

https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/serial-selves/9780813592251


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