Is There a Body in This Text? Embodiment in Graphic Somatography
If the great advantage of the graphic memoir of illness and disability is that it features the body in the text, for greatest effectiveness-and affectiveness-the body ought to be recognizable as a particular human's-manifestly a thing of flesh, blood, and bone, a truly corporeal body.
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| Published in | Auto/biography studies Vol. 33; no. 2; pp. 347 - 373 |
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| Format | Journal Article |
| Language | English |
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Routledge
04.05.2018
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| Online Access | Get full text |
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| Summary: | If the great advantage of the graphic memoir of illness and disability is that it features the body in the text, for greatest effectiveness-and affectiveness-the body ought to be recognizable as a particular human's-manifestly a thing of flesh, blood, and bone, a truly corporeal body. |
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| ISSN: | 0898-9575 2151-7290 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/08989575.2018.1445585 |