PathoGraphics - Narrative, Aesthetics, Contention, Community

A collection of essays exploring how fiction, life-writing, and comics portray illness, medical treatment, and disability.

About the author

Susan Merrill Squier is Julia Gregg Brill Professor Emerita of English and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Penn State University, a founding member of the Graphic Medicine Collective, Coeditor of the Graphic Medicine Series, and Einstein Visiting Fellow of the 2016–21 PathoGraphics Research Project. Her publications include Graphic Medicine Manifesto, also published by Penn State University Press. Irmela Marei Krüger-Fürhoff is Professor of German Literature at Freie Universität Berlin and academic lead of the 2016–2021 PathoGraphics research project.

Summary

A collection of essays exploring how fiction, life-writing, and comics portray illness, medical treatment, and disability.

Product details

• Assisted by: Irmela Marei Kruger-Furhoff (Editor), Irmela Marei (Freie Universitat Berlin) Kruger-Furhoff (Editor), Irmela Marei Krüger-Fürhoff (Editor), Susan Merrill Squier (Editor), Susan Merrill (Julia Gregg Brill Professor of English and Women's Studies Squier (Editor), Squier Susan Merrill (Editor)
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.06.2020
• EAN: 9780271086170
• ISBN: 978-0-271-08617-0
• Dimensions: 178 mm x 254 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 649 g
• Illustrations: Raster,schwarz-weiss, Raster, farbig
• Series: Graphic Medicine
• Subjects: Fiction > Comic, cartoon, humour, satire > Comic; COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Nonfiction / General, COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Nonfiction / Biography & Memoir, LITERARY CRITICISM / Comics & Graphic Novels, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Graphic Novels: True Stories & Non-Fiction