Título: Alison Bechdel: Conversations (Conversations with Comic Artists Series)
Autor: Rachel R. Martin
Sinopse: Due to the huge success of her graphic memoir Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic in 2006 and its subsequent Tony Award–winning musical adaptation in 2009, Alison Bechdel (b. 1960) has recently become a household name. However, Bechdel, who has won numerous awards including a MacArthur Fellowship, has been writing and drawing comics since the early 1980s. Her comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For (DTWOF) stood out as one of the first to depict lesbians in popular culture and is widely hailed as an essential LGBTQ resource.
It is also from this comic strip that the wildly popular Bechdel Test―a test to gauge positive female representation in film―obtained its name. While DTWOF secured Bechdel’s role in the comics world and queer community long before her mainstream success, Bechdel now experiences notoriety that few comics artists ever achieve and that women cartoonists have never attained.
Spanning from 1990 to 2017, Alison Bechdel: Conversations collects twelve interviews that illustrate how Bechdel uses her own life, relationships, and contemporary events to expose the world to what she has referred to as the “fringes of acceptability”―the comics genre as well as queer culture and identity. These interviews reveal her intentionality in the use of characters, plots, structure, and cartooning to draw her readers toward disrupting the status quo.
Starting with her earliest interviews on public access television and in little-known comics and queer presses, Rachel R. Martin traces Bechdel’s career from her days with DTWOF to her popularity with Fun Home and Are You My Mother? This volume includes her “one-off” DTWOF strips from November 2016 and March 2017 (not anthologized anywhere else) and in-depth discussions of her laborious creative process as well as upcoming projects.
Contexto da obra
Como livro em inglês, esta obra costuma ganhar também uma camada própria de interesse editorial e linguístico. “Alison Bechdel: Conversations (Conversations with Comic Artists Series)”, de Rachel R. Martin, publicado pela editora University Press of Mississippi, em 2018 e com 162 páginas, integra a categoria Livros em Inglês. Por isso, o interesse da obra tende a se ampliar quando o leitor considera também a relação com a língua em que ela circula.
Editora: University Press of Mississippi
Páginas: 162
Ano: 2018-10-05
Edição: Paper ed.
Linguagem: en
ISBN: 1496819276
ISBN13: 9781496819277
Sobre a editora
Os livros da editora University Press of Mississippi trazem uma experiência de leitura que combina rigor acadêmico com narrativas humanas e culturais profundas. O catálogo revela um interesse constante por personagens reais e fictícios que dialogam com a história e a identidade do sul dos Estados Unidos, explorando desde biografias de artistas e cineastas até estudos sociológicos e relatos de movimentos sociais. O tom varia entre o ensaístico e o narrativo, com obras que equilibram análise crítica e histórias de vida, muitas vezes focadas em comunidades marginalizadas ou em processos culturais específicos. A linguagem tende a ser densa e informativa, mas acessível, convidando leitores interessados em temas históricos, culturais e artísticos a uma imersão reflexiva.
