“Graphic body memoir”:
on the genre of autobiographical comics and representations of disability
Keywords:
Autobiography. Comics. Disability. BodyAbstract
This article discusses the genre of autobiographical comics and the possibilities of representation of disability, something to which I refer to as “graphic body memoirs”. The idiosyncrasies of comics justify the need for a more specific theoretical framework in terms of graphic memoirs and disability. To illustrate the possibilities of such concept, I bring the work Bitter Medicine: A Graphic Memoir of Mental Illness, by the brothers Clem e Olivier Martini, published in 2010.
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