Spaces Between

Gender, Diversity, and Identity in Comics
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-3-658-30115-6
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 200 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 291 g

The contributions gathered in this volume exhibit a great variety of interdisciplinary perspectives on and theoretical approaches to the notion of ‘draw our attention to the nexus between the medium of comics and the categories of difference as well as identity such as gender, dis/ability, age, and ethnicity, in order to open and intensify an interdisciplinary conversation between comics studies and intersectional identity studies.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sina, Véronique

Eckhoff-Heindl, Nina

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Gattungen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part One: Dis/Ability and Graphic Medicine.- Part Two: (Trans-)Cultural Identities and the (De-)Construction of Race and Ethnicity.- Part Three: Queering Comics and the Gendered Self.- Part Four: Superheroes Revisted - Intersections of Gender and Genre.- Part Five: Fluid and Fragmented Bodies in Comics. 87025118.

Über Autor(innen)

Nina Eckhoff-Heindl, M.A. is a research assistant at the University of Cologne and MSCA Fellow in the “a.r.t.e.s. EUmanities” program of the a.r.t.e.s. Graduate School for the Humanities Cologne. 
Dr. Véronique Sina is a Research Associate at the Department of Media Culture and Theatre at the University of Cologne and the vice president of the German Society of Comics Studies (ComFor).