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Graphic Embodiments
Perspectives on Health and Embodiment in Graphic Narratives
2021 || Paperback || Lisa DeTora e.a. || Leuven University Press
Comics and other graphic narratives powerfully represent embodied experiences that are difficult to express in language. A group of authors from various countries and disciplines explore the unique capacity of graphic narratives to represent human embodiment as well as the relation of human bodies to the worlds they inhabit. Using works from illustrated scientific texts to contemporary comics across national traditions, we discover how the graphic narrative can shed new light on everyday expe...
Visualising Small Traumas
Contemporary Portuguese Comics at the Intersection of Everyday Trauma
2022 || Paperback || Pedro Moura || Leuven University Press
Portugal's vibrant comics scene originated as early as the 19th century, bringing forth brilliant individual artists, but has remained mostly unknown beyond Portugal’s borders to this day. Now a new generation employs this medium to put into question hegemonic views on the economy, politics, and society. Following the experience of the financial crisis of the past decades and its impact on social policies, access to and rules of public discourse, and civil strife, comics have questioned wha...
Character Constellations
Representations of Social Groups in Present-Day Dutch Literary Fiction
2021 || Paperback || Roel Smeets || Leuven University Press
Fiction has a major social impact, not least because it co-shapes the image that society has of various social groups. Drawing on a collection of 170 contemporary Dutch-language novels, Character Constellations presents a range of data-driven, statistical models to study depictions of characters in terms of gender, race, ethnicity, class, age, sexuality, and other identity categories. Incorporating the tools of network analysis, each chapter highlights an aspect of fictional social networks t...