{"product_id":"canadian-graphic-candida-rifkind-9781771121798","title":"Canadian Graphic: Picturing Life Narratives","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCanadian Graphic: Picturing Life Narratives\u003c\/i\u003e presents critical essays on contemporary Canadian cartoonists working in graphic life narrative, from confession to memoir to biography. The contributors draw on literary theory, visual studies, and cultural history to show how Canadian cartoonists have become so prominent in the international market for comic books based on real-life experiences. The essays explore the visual styles and storytelling techniques of Canadian cartoonists, as well as their shared concern with the spectacular vulnerability of the self. \u003ci\u003eCanadian Graphic\u003c\/i\u003e also considers the role of graphic life narratives in reimagining the national past, including Indigenous-settler relations, both world wars, and Quebec's Quiet Revolution.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContributors use a range of approaches to analyze the political, aesthetic, and narrative tensions in these works between self and other, memory and history, individual and collective. An original contribution to the study of auto\/biography, alternative comics, and Canadian print culture, \u003ci\u003eCanadian Graphic\u003c\/i\u003e proposes new ways of reading the intersection of comics and auto\/ biography both within and across national boundaries.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Candida Rifkind\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1771121793\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781771121798\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Wilfrid Laurier University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/20\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.20h x 6.70w x 0.70d","brand":"Candida Rifkind","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44125344334079,"sku":"9781771121798","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_7a12cea7-7985-400e-ab98-dd304ccbd544.jpg?v=1687442082","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/canadian-graphic-candida-rifkind-9781771121798","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}