Acknowledgments
Introduction
Michael A. Chaney
Part I: Art Spiegelman
1 Reading Comics: Art Spiegelman on CD-ROM
Paul John Eakin
2 Mourning and Postmemory
Marianne Hirsch
3 Art Spiegelman and AutobioGRAPHICal Re-Vision
Erin McGlothlin
4 Breakdowns and Breakthroughs: Looking for Art in Young Spiegelman
Bella Brodzki
Part II: The Global Scope of Autography
5 Human Rights and Comics: Autobiographical Avatars, Crisis Witnessing, and Transnational Rescue Networks
Sidonie Smith
6 Picturing Oneself as Another
Linda Haverty Rugg
7 Dominique Goblet: The List Principle and the Meaning of Form
Jan Baetens
8 The Animal Witness of the Rwandan Genocide
Michael A. Chaney
9 Autobiography as Discovery in Epileptic
Stephen E. Tabachnick
10 Manga and the End of Japan's 1960s
James Dorsey
Part III: Visualizing Women's Life Writing
11 Autographic Disclosures and Genealogies of Desire in Alison Bechdel's Fun Home
Julia Watson
12 Witnessing Persepolis: Comics, Trauma, and Childhood Testimony
Leigh Gilmore
13 A Story Told in Flashback: Remediating Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis
Nima Naghibi
14 Autobiography: The Process Negates the Term
Phoebe Gloeckner
15 Up from Surgery: The Politics of Self-Representation in Women's Graphic Memoirs of Illness
Theresa Tensuan
16 The Gutter Effect in Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's A Dialogue on Love
Carolyn Williams
17 Photau(gyno)graphy: The Work of Joanne Leonard
Domna C. Stanton
Part IV: Varieties of the Self
18 The Diary Comic
Isaac Cates
19 Justin Green: Autobiography Meets the Comics
Joseph Witek
20 Narrative Worldmaking in Graphic Life Writing
David Herman
21 In Praise of Joseph Witek's Comic Books as History
Ian Gordon
22 Selective Mutual Reinforcement in the Comics of Chester Brown, Joe Matt, and Seth
Bart Beaty
23 Keeping it (Hyper)Real: Autobiographical Fiction in 3-D
Damian Duffy
24 Fictional Auto/Biography and Graphic Lives in Watchmen
Victoria A. Elmwood
25 American Born Chinese: Challenging the Stereotype
Rocío G. Davis
26 Materializing Memory: Lynda Barry's One Hundred Demons
Hillary Chute
27 Reflections on Lynda Barry
Andrea A. Lunsford
Contributors
Index
