Graphic Women: Life Narrative And Contemporary ... -

uses a deliberately "ugly" or grotesque style to reclaim the female body from the objectifying male gaze, portraying everyday life and sexuality with unflinching honesty.

Central to Chute’s analysis is the concept of "embodiment". Graphic Women: Life Narrative and Contemporary ...

In her seminal 2010 work, Graphic Women: Life Narrative and Contemporary Comics , Hillary L. Chute argues that the medium of comics offers a unique "idiom of witness" that allows women to represent traumatic and personal histories in ways traditional prose cannot. By analyzing the work of five key cartoonists—, Phoebe Gloeckner , Lynda Barry , Marjane Satrapi , and Alison Bechdel —Chute demonstrates how the interplay of text and hand-drawn imagery creates a powerful, material "putting of the body on the page". The Body as Text: Representation and Trauma uses a deliberately "ugly" or grotesque style to