Precarious Youth in Contemporary Graphic Narratives: Young Lives in Crisis [Paperback]

List of Figures;  List of Contributors;  Acknowledgments;  Introduction: Graphic Narratives and the Precarious Condition;  Part I Representations of Precarious Youth in Graphic Fiction;  1. The Ideological Depiction of Childhood during the Great Depression: from Little Orphan Annie to Little Lefty;  2. Oppressive Structures and Childhood Precarity in The Witches: A Graphic Novel;  3. Journey to Adulthood: Visual Representation of a Morphing Identity in Inio Asanos Goodnight Punpun;  4. A Malaise That We Dont Know What to Name: Cruel Optimism and Residual Disenchantment in Nadars El Mundo a Tus Pies (2015);  5. What Is Love? Precarious Lives, Precarious Loves in the Works of Italian Women Graphic Novelists;  Part II The Young Self in Crisis in (Auto)Biographic Comics;  6. Uncertain Homes: Trauma, Fracture, and Resilience in Roma Biographies from the Childrens Homes in the Czech Republic;  7. Finding Voice Within the Objects of Their Lives: Adolescents Writing Memoir Comics to Interrogate Crisis;  Part III Superheroic Precarity;  8. Super-Precariat: Socioeconomic Fictions and Realities of Superhero Comic Books;  9. What Happens to a Dream Deferred?: Super Villains of African Descent;  Part IV Surviving in a Precarious Market: Labour Insecurity and the Publishing Sector;  10. Precarious Identity: Labelling Oneself Fumettista?;  11. Amazing Ultradeformer Cartoonist from Ituzaing?: The Memes of Pedro Mancini;  12. In Conversation with Vicent Gil³&