How art constitutes the human : aesthetics, empathy, and the interesting in autofiction

This chapter examines ‘graphic autofiction’ in Lynda Barry’s One! Hundred! Demons! (2002) and What It Is (2009) and Phoebe Gloeckner’s A Child’s Life and Other Stories (2000) and The Diary of A Teenage Girl: An Account in Words and Pictures (2002), demonstrating how it allows feminist performances that visualize cartoonists’ authentic experiences of sexual and other forms of trauma. The chapter makes a valuable contribution to current debates on autofiction by moving beyond its literary expressions and investigating how the hybrid medium of comics accommodates the genre and how that, in its turn, complicates the representation of trauma. It also proposes that ‘graphic autofiction’ allows the formation of feminist counter-narratives to the silencing of female abuse victims and the latter’s representation beyond victimhood

A Great Conversation with Jamaica Kincaid

In this recording of A Great Conversation with Jamaica Kincaid, which took place on April 1, 2011, Kincaid answers a variety of questions posed by the moderator, Dr. Denise Lajimodiere. Topics of conversation include nearly all of Kincaid\u27s work, as well as questions about her childhood. Due to a power outage at the venue, only the last 42 minutes of the conversation were able to be recorded

"Girl", de Jamaica Kincaid

Tradução de: Elizabeth Ramos.Uma das particularidades do texto de Kincaid são símbolos e representações que remetem ao leitor a um contexto de servidão colonial, no qual se deu seu processo de formação em Antígua, de on de a autora saiu aos 16 anos