ABSTRACT
This volume explores comics as examples of moral outrage in the face of a reality in which precariousness has become an inherent part of young lives. Taking a thematic approach, the chapters devote attention to the expression and representation of precarious subjectivities, as well as to the economic and professional precarity that characterizes comics creation and production.
An international team of authors, young and senior systematically examines the representation of precarious youth in graphic fiction and autobiographic comics, superheroes and precarity, market issues and spaces of activism and vulnerability. With this structure, the book offers a global perspective and comprehensive coverage of different aspects of a complex and multifaceted field of knowledge, with a special attention to minorities and liminal subjects. The comics analyzed function as examples of "ethical solicitation" that bear witness of the precarious existence younger generations endure, while at the same time creating images that voice their outrage and might move readers to act.
This timely and truly interdisciplinary volume will appeal to comics scholars and researchers in the areas of media and cultural studies, modern languages, education, art and design, communication studies, sociology, medical humanities and more.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|72 pages
Representations of Precarious Youth in Graphic Fiction
chapter 181|12 pages
The Ideological Depiction of Childhood during the Great Depression
chapter 3|15 pages
Journey to Adulthood
chapter 4|13 pages
“A Malaise That We Don't Know What to Name”
chapter 5|16 pages
What Is Love?
part II|34 pages
The Young Self in Crisis in (Auto)Biographic Comics
chapter 906|16 pages
Uncertain Homes
chapter 7|16 pages
Finding Voice within the Objects of Their Lives
part III|26 pages
Superheroic Precarity
chapter 9|12 pages
“What Happens to a Dream Deferred?”
part IV|48 pages
Surviving in a Precarious Market: Labour Insecurity and the Publishing Sector
part V|60 pages
Spaces of Vulnerability/Spaces of Action