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shanaetheflyest's review against another edition
5.0
I've read GRAPHIC WOMEN several time over the past few months. I find it an insightful and intriguing look at not only graphic narratives but also women writers and women's studies.
For anyone interested in writing about graphic narratives, then I definitely recommend GRAPHIC WOMEN, however, I do not find it the text you'd want to pick up for recreational reading.
For anyone interested in writing about graphic narratives, then I definitely recommend GRAPHIC WOMEN, however, I do not find it the text you'd want to pick up for recreational reading.
whitneyborup's review against another edition
4.0
Very interesting ideas about the specificity of the form and the embodiment of trauma. I would have liked a little more generalized theorizing, but the close readings (especially of Bechdel) were excellent.
brogan7's review against another edition
challenging
informative
slow-paced
This is a hard book to rate. It is Extremely academic--like, so extremely I had to wonder how Chute maintained that register throughout and why it felt necessary to her to do so. Clearly she is interested in what the artists she covers are making--Kominsky-Crumb, Gloeckner, Satrapi, Barry and Bechdel--but yet one thing they all are is accessible, and the one thing Chute isn't is accessible.
She is trying to get the works to be taken seriously, but the intellectual remove gets tedious after a while.
She is trying to get the works to be taken seriously, but the intellectual remove gets tedious after a while.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicide, Violence, and Death of parent
pussreboots's review against another edition
2.0
Too narrow of a focus. There are so many different women writing graphic novels / memoirs now and this book focuses on four or five. The first two chapters seem to be there just for the shock value.
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