Memory; Girl's comics; Girlhood; Comics study; Historiography of comics
Abstract :
[en] In her monograph Remembered Reading (2015), Mel Gibson builds on her field work, interviews and meetings with readers of girls’ comics to recover the history and memory of this forgotten genre. Drawing on these shared memories and recollections, Gibson presents a readers’ history of British girls’ comics that reveals how these readings were part of identity constructions and personal histories, tied up to public factors of gender, age and class. In doing so, Gibson revises many stereotypes that have characterized girls’ comics, sketches a much more nuanced picture of the genre, and highlights the complexity of readers’ engagement with comics.
Research center :
Groupe ACME
Disciplines :
History Art & art history Literature
Author, co-author :
Crucifix, Benoît ; Université de Liège > Département de langues et littératures romanes > Département de langues et littératures romanes
Language :
English
Title :
A Readers’ History of Girls’ Comics: A Review of Remembered Reading
Publication date :
03 March 2016
Journal title :
Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship
eISSN :
2048-0792
Publisher :
Open Library of Humanities, United Kingdom
Volume :
6
Reviewed work :
Gibson, M (2015). Remembered Reading. Memory, Comics and Post-War Constructions of British Girlhood. Leuven: Leuven University Press. ‘Studies in European Comics and Graphic Novels’ series
Funders :
F.R.S.-FNRS - Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique [BE]
