Comic Art and Feminism in the Baltic Sea Region

This edited collection explores how the relationship between comic art and feminism has been shaped by global, transnational, and local trends, curating analyses of multinational comic art that encompasses themes of gender, sexuality, power, vulnerability, assault, abuse, taboo, and trauma.

Autorentext

Kristy Beers Fägersten is Professor of English Linguistics at Södertörn University.

Anna Nordenstam is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Gothenburg.

Leena Romu is a post-doctoral researcher at Tampere University.

Margareta Wallin Wictorin is Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies at Karlstad University.

Inhalt

1 Feminist Comics: An Expanding Field; Part I: Swedish feminist comics artists; 2 Swedish Feminist Comics and Cartoons at the Turn of the Millennium: Joanna Rubin Dranger and Åsa Grennvall (Schagerström); 3 A Woman's Place (in the panel): Positioning and Framing in Comics by Nina Hemmingsson and Lotta Sjöberg; Part II: Gender, sex, and sexuality in German-language comics; 4 A Brief History of Girlsplaining? Reading Klengel, Patu, and Schrupp with Strömquist. Or: Reflecting Visualities of Gender and Feminism in German-Language Comics; 5 "What's in a name?": Anke Feuchtenberger's Roses and the Mythic Methodologies of her Feminist Comic Art; 6 For Sex-Positivity? Potential and limits of representating Sex and Sexuality in Ulli Lust's Comics Across Genres; Part III: Non-binary and queer expression in comics; 7 Strategies of Ambiguity: Non-Binary Figurations in German-Language Comics; 8 Feminist and Queer Aesthetics in Tove Jansson's Moomin Comics; Part IV: Addressing violence in Finnish comics; 9 Feminist Education and Empowerment: The Individual and the Collective in Emmi Nieminen and Johanna Vehkoo's Comic on Online Violence; 10 The Narrative Complexity of Showing and Telling Sexual Harassment and Violence in Kati Kovács's Comics; Part V: Memoir and remembering in Polish and Russian comics; 11 "After all, we must be our own heroines": The Power of Feminism, Fun Home, and Form in Wanda Hagedorn's Graphic Memoir Totalnie Nie Nostalgia: Memuar; 12 Staring Back at History: Varvara Pomidor and Russian Comics