Alison Bechdel and Crip-Feminist Autobiography

Alison Bechdel's recent graphic memoirs generate new strategies for negotiating feminist and queer literary theory's troubled relationship to metaphors of disability. Presenting a set of continuities between Alison's embodied experience of OCD and her adult drawing and writing techniq...

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Published in:Journal of modern literature 2016-06, Vol.39 (4), p.139-161
Main Author: Barounis, Cynthia
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
American literature
Animators
Autobiographical literature
Autobiographies
Bechdel, Alison
Bechdel, Alison (1960- )
British & Irish literature
Cartoonists
Cartoonists and animators
Collaboration
Creativity
Criticism and interpretation
Disabilities
Disability studies
Disorders
Editing
English literature
Feminism
Feminist literary theory
Literary language
Literary theory
Memoirs
Mental depression
Mental disorders
Metaphor
Modern literature
Mothers
Negotiation
Obsessive compulsive disorder
Queer culture
Queer theory
Social aspects
Womens literature
Woolf, Virginia (1882-1941)
Works
Writers
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