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Lynda Barry : Girlhood Through the Looking Glass
ISBN: 9781617032356 | 1617032352
Format: PaperbackPublisher: Univ Pr of Mississippi
Pub. Date: 1/25/2012
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Best known for her long-running comic strip Ernie Pook's Comeek, illustrated fiction ( Cruddy, The Good Times Are Killing Me), and graphic novels ( One! Hundred! Demons!), the art of Lynda Barry (b. 1956) has branched out to incorporate plays, paintings, radio commentary, and lectures. With a combination of simple, raw drawings and mature, eloquent text, Barry's oeuvre blurs the boundaries between fiction and memoir, comics and literary fiction, and fantasy and reality. Her recent volumes What It Is(2008) and Picture This(2010) fuse autobiography, teaching guide, sketchbook, and cartooning into coherent visions. In Lynda Barry: Girlhood through the Looking Glass, author Susan E. Kirtley examines the artist's career and contributions to the field of comic art and beyond. The study specifically concentrates on Barry's recurring focus on figures of young girls, in a variety of mediums and genres. Barry follows the image of the girl through several lenses--from text-based novels to the hybrid blending of text and image in comic art, to art shows and coloring books. In tracing Barry's aesthetic and intellectual development, Kirtley reveals Barry's work to be groundbreaking in its understanding of femininity and feminism.
| Acknowledgments | p. ix |
| Preface | p. xi |
| Outcasts and Odd Ducks | p. 3 |
| "True Stories": Lynda Barry's Early Years and Works | p. 15 |
| Evolution of an Image: The Good Times Are Killing Me | p. 48 |
| Through a Glass Darkly: Cruddy's Girl in the Fun-House Mirror | p. 77 |
| Girlhood under the Microscope in Ernie Pook's Comeek | p. 102 |
| Scrapbooking the Self: "Autobifictionalography" in ... MORE | p. 148 |
| Mirror, Mirror: Reflections on Girlhood and Growing Up | p. 179 |
| Notes | p. 194 |
| Bibliography | p. 200 |
| Index | p. 211 |
| Table of Contents provided by Ingram. All Rights Reserved. |
Susan Kirtley is assistant professor of English at Portland State University. Her work has been published in Rhetoric Review, Academic Exchange Quarterly, and Exit 9: The Rutgers Journal of Comparative Literature.
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