Performativity Cultural Construction and the Graphic Narrative

<p><em>Performativity Cultural Construction and the Graphic Narrative</em> draws on performance studies scholarship to understand the social impact of graphic novels and their sociopolitical function.</p><p></p><p>Addressing issues of race gender ethnicity race war mental illness and the environment the volume encompasses the diversity and variety inherent in the graphic narrative medium. Informed by the scholarship of Dwight Conquergood and his model for performance praxis this collection of essays makes links between these seemingly disparate areas of study to open new avenues of research for comics and graphic narratives. An international team of authors offer a detailed analysis of new and classical graphic texts from Britain Iran India and Canada as well as the United States. </p><p></p><p>Performance Social Construction and the Graphic Narrative draws on performance studies scholarship to understand the social impact of graphic novels and their sociopolitical function. Addressing issues of race gender ethnicity race war mental illness and the environment the volume encompasses the diversity and variety inherent in the graphic narrative medium. This book will be of interest to students and scholars in the areas of communication literature comics studies performance studies sociology languages English and gender studies and anyone with an interest in deepening their acquaintance with and understanding of the potential of graphic narratives.</p>