Description
Book SynopsisA collection of essays exploring how fiction, life-writing, and comics portray illness, medical treatment, and disability.
Trade Review“This multidisciplinary collection of essays examines textual and graphic representations of illness, disability, and pain, describing how the narratives in question use the aesthetics of their medium to embrace contention and community. The authors reclaim ground previously ceded to traditional paradigms and in the process liberate the mind, the body, and the text.”
—MK Czerwiec,author of Taking Turns: Stories from HIV/AIDS Care Unit 371
“PathoGraphics advances discussions about how to read, visualize, and create comics about illness and disability in complex and welcome ways. The contributors are extremely well informed about the fields from which the book draws: narrative medicine, literary studies, disability studies, comics studies, and graphic medicine. PathoGraphics engagingly shows how these fields can mutually constitute new knowledge when creative practices, intersecting with illness and disability narratives, create a site for artistic innovation with a social justice bent.”
—Ann Fox,Davidson College
Table of ContentsIntroduction
Susan Merrill Squier and Irmela Marei Krüger-Fürhoff
1. The Reflecting Physician
Einat Avrahami
2. Assembling a Shared Life in Anders Nilsen’s Don’t Go Where I Can’t Follow
Tahneer Oksman
3. Ways of Looking: Reading PathoGraphics
Nina Schmidt
4. The Comics Pain Scale and Comics About Pain
Ariela Freedman
5. The Tightrope to Equilibrium: Parkinson’s Disease in Literature and Comics
Irmela Marei Krüger-Fürhoff
6. Her Leg”: Chris Ware’s Body of Work
Rieke Jordan
7. Crafting Psychiatric Contention Through Single-Panel Cartoons
Helen Spandler
8. Subverting Stigma: Community Building in Serial Comics
Leah Misemer
9. Psychosis Blues: Schizophrenia, Comics, and Collaboration
Elizabeth J. Donaldson
10. The Quickening
stef lenk
11. Interview with stef lenk on The Quickening
Irmela Marei Krüger-Fürhoff and Susan Merrill Squier
12. Desire Paths: PathoGraphics and Transgenerational Trauma
Maureen Burdock
13. Scaling Graphic Medicine: The Porous Pathography, a New Kind of Illness Narrative
Susan Merrill Squier
List of Contributors
Index
