ABSTRACT
In her book, Graphic women: life narrative and contemporary comics, Chute notes the large and ever-expanding body of graphic narrative work, works by women that 'represent a new aesthetics emerging around self-representation', that are 'experimental and accessible' and that treat subjects relevant to feminist inquiry. Writing comics and graphic narratives through the combined use of word and image offers a productive means to explore experiences of complex relationships in fieldwork. Graphic narratives have the capacity to create deeply intimate worlds for the author and the reader that can transport both to another place and time. The building of relationships during fieldwork presents a particularly complex terrain of power, emotion and intimacy. Feminist scholars need more and different kinds of spaces for writing about these experiences. Comics present exciting potential both as objects of study and as method of representing and reporting on research.
