Furthermore, both Drechsler and Green utilize the notions of presence and absence their visual representations of deeply traumatized heroines.ĭrechsler deconstructs the idea of form and background in her tragic and disturbing stories about incest: she often visually disguises her female protagonists by making them blend in with backgrounds. Both authors use the expressive power of background, and build on the emotional potential of patterns against which the body is performed. The paper focuses on autobiographically motivated graphic narratives, namely Debbie Drechsler’s Daddy’s Girl (1996) and Summer of Love (2002) and Katie Green’s Lighter than My Shadow (2013), and examines representations of the violated female body in relation to the surface of the page. Presence and Disappearance – The surface of the page and narrating sexual abuse in the works of Debbie Drechsler and Katie Green The topic of this year’s conf is “Stages and Pages”, and here is my abstract: I’ll be talking at a panel at the 7th International Comics and Medicine Conference in Dundee in a couple of days ( link).
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