Autobiographical Comics and Graphic Novels
Philosophical and Psychoanalytical Reflections on the Autographic Gesture
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Product details:
- Publisher Springer Nature Switzerland
- Date of Publication 31 August 2025
- Number of Volumes 1 pieces, Book
- ISBN 9783031922565
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages187 pages
- Size 210x148 mm
- Language English
- Illustrations X, 187 p. 37 illus., 18 illus. in color. Illustrations, black & white 692
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This book offers philosophical and psychoanalytical reflections on the selfhood shaped in autobiographical graphic narratives, or autographics. These reflections revolve around the ‘autographic gesture’. This gesture refers to, firstly, the leaving of graphic traces of an embodied self, which, secondly, transform into a drawn figure that represents this self and acquires a certain autonomy as a character, and which, thirdly, are embedded in a narrative that tells all or part of this self’s life story. By combining the semiotic logics of trace, image, and narrative, the book argues, autographics perform this gesture and shape a specific form of selfhood.
The book studies this process by turning to theories about selfhood constructed primarily within the following three intellectual traditions: existential hermeneutics, as developed by Paul Ricoeur; existential phenomenology, as embodied by Jean-Paul Sartre; and psychoanalysis, through the lenses of Jacques Lacan, Marion Milner, and Donald Winnicott. The ideas of these authors, as well as Paul de Man’s and Johann Gottlieb Fichte’s analyses of subject-constitution, are brought into dialogue with autobiographical graphic narratives by Zoe Thorogood, Katie Green, Peter Pontiac, Alison Bechdel, Yoshihiro Tatsumi, Marjane Satrapi, Riad Sattouf, Keiji Nakazawa, Lynda Barry, and others.
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Chapter 1: Introducing the Autographic Gesture.- Chapter 2: The Autographic Gesture and Narrative Cartoonist Identity.- Chapter 3: The Autographic Gesture and the Imaginary.- Chapter 4: The Autographic Gesture and the Sketched, Scribbled and Doodled Self.- Chapter 5: The Autographic Gesture: Concluding Remarks.
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