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SUMMARY:Filial Lines: Art Spiegelman\, Alison Bechdel\, and Comics Form  -
  Emmy Waldman\, University of Miami
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CONTACT:Joe Sutliff Sanders
DESCRIPTION:Waldman previews her new book\, which explores the autobiograp
 hical projects of Art Spiegelman and Alison Bechdel\, focusing on new and 
 neglected works. The book offers a lively cast of five formal tropes - box
 es\, spirals\, tic-tac-toe\, mirrors\, and webs - through which to model f
 undamental elements of the comics grammar and its material processes. Toge
 ther\, these figures show what makes the comics form particularly suited t
 o negotiate complex familial and creative inheritances and manage layered\
 , relational identities. Interweaving accounts of Jewish identity\, female
  embodiment\, legacies of modernism\, and feminist praxis\, the book trace
 s how two of our most celebrated graphic memoirists visually work and rewo
 rk their filiations and affiliations through form. Ultimately\, thinking w
 ith boxes\, spirals\, tic-tac-toe\, mirrors\, and webs helps situate the c
 omics medium as a privileged site and staging ground for arguments about t
 he enabling possibilities of form now.
LOCATION: Room S1\, Alison Richard Building\, 7 West Road\, Cambridge\, CB
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