Queer Narratives in Contemporary American Comics: Gutter Smut [Hardcover]

List of figures;?Preface;?Chapter 1: The Dream of a Common Visual Language:? Reading Sex, Gender and Sexuality through Comics Formalism in the Early 21^st Century;?Chapter 2: I Just Dont Know How to Explain Myself: Liminality, Narrative Foreclosure and Censorship in Comics Memoirs by Alison Bechdel and Maia Kobabe;?Chapter 3: Illustrated User Manuals for Adolescent Bodies: The Sex Positive Rhetoric of Recent Young Adult Comics for Sexual Health Education;?Chapter 4: Language is a Map: Transtextuality, Transculturality and Belonging in Coming-Out Narratives by Laura Gao and Trung Le Nguyen;?Chapter 5: Caging Father Earths Unruly Daughters: Critiques of the Carceral State and Abolitionist Feminist Aesthetics in Bitch Planet;?Index.

Queer Narratives in Contemporary American Comics: Gutter Smut?provides timely cultural criticism of both fiction and nonfiction graphic narratives in order to reveal how social mores related to gender and sexuality haveand haven'tshifted since the turn of the twenty-first century.

Sandra Cox is a professor at Southeast Missouri State University. Her work has been published in a variety of journals, including The Journal of Science Fiction and The Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics. In 2021, she edited the collection Intersectional Feminist Readings of Comics.

Queer Narratives in Contemporary American Comics: Gutter Smut examines how comics reveal evolving perspectives on gender, sex and sexuality in the United States. Tracing moral panics from the mid-20th century to present-day radical cartoonists, this volume analyzes works from established creators like Alison Bechdel and Kelly Sue DeConnick alongside emerging cartoonists such as Laura Gao and Isabella Rotman. Through various feminist theoretical lenses, the book provides timely cultural criticism of both fiction and nol&