PathoGraphics : : narrative, aesthetics, contention, community / / Susan Merrill Squier, Irmela Marei Krüger-Fürhoff, editors.

• TeilnehmendeR: Squier, Susan Merrill,; Krüger-Fürhoff, Irmela Marei,
• Place / Publishing House: University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press,, 2020.
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (237 pages) :; illustrations
• Notes: Includes index.

Culturally powerful ideas of normalcy and deviation, individual responsibility, and what is medically feasible shape the ways in which we live with illness and disability. The essays in this volume show how illness narratives expressed in a variety of forms--biographical essays, fictional texts, cartoons, graphic novels, and comics--reflect on and grapple with the fact that these human experiences are socially embedded and culturally shaped. Works of fiction addressing the impact of an illness or disability; autobiographies and memoirs exploring an experience of medical treatment; and comics that portray illness or disability from the perspective of patient, family member, or caregiver: all of these narratives forge a specific aesthetic in order to communicate their understanding of the human condition. This collection demonstrates what can emerge when scholars and artists interested in fiction, life-writing, and comics collaborate to explore how various media portray illness, medical treatment, and disability. Rather than stopping at the limits of genre or medium, the essays talk across fields, exploring together how works in these different forms craft narratives and aesthetics to negotiate contention and build community around those experiences and to discover how the knowledge and experiences of illness and disability circulate within the realms of medicine, art, the personal, and the cultural. Ultimately, they demonstrate a common purpose: to examine the ways comics and literary texts build an audience and galvanize not just empathy but also action.In addition to the editors, the contributors to this volume include Einat Avrahami, Maureen Burdock, Elizabeth J. Donaldson, Ariela Freedman, Rieke Jordan, stef lenk, Leah Misemer, Tahneer Oksman, Nina Schmidt, and Helen Spandler.Chapter 7, "Crafting Psychiatric Contention Through Single-Panel Cartoons," by Helen Spandler, is available as Open Access courtesy of a grant from the Wellcome Trust. A link to the OA version of this chapter is forthcoming.

Table of Contents

Introduction Susan Merrill Squier and Irmela Marei Kruger-Furhoff -- 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 Kruger-Furhoff -- 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 Quickeningstef lenk -- 11. Interview with stef lenk on The Quickening Irmela Marei Kruger-Furhoff 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.