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The Common Place: The Poetics Of The Pedestrian In Kevin Huizenga’S Walkin’, Shiamin Kwa
The Common Place: The Poetics Of The Pedestrian In Kevin Huizenga’S Walkin’, Shiamin Kwa
East Asian Languages and Cultures Faculty Research and Scholarship
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Still Moving: Gabrielle Bell’S Graphic Auto-Fiction, Shiamin Kwa
Still Moving: Gabrielle Bell’S Graphic Auto-Fiction, Shiamin Kwa
East Asian Languages and Cultures Faculty Research and Scholarship
In Lucky, The Voyeurs, and Truth is Fragmentary, cartoonist Gabrielle Bell adopts comics panels of approximately the same size as a passport photo. The comics draw a kind of auto-fiction that marries the fantastical and the autobiographical, frequently eliding musings on her status as a woman writer, a comics writer, and a traveler. These are all categories that share the distinction of being “threshold” or liminal categories. This chapter takes Bell’s presentation of identity as an object of formal and phenomenological inquiry. It considers how the hand-drawn rendering of the autobiographical self ironically draws attention to the irregularity of identity …