Disability in Comic Books and Graphic Narratives.

Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Foreword by Rosemarie Garland-Thomson -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: From Feats of Clay to Narrative Prose/thesis -- 1 Mutable Articulations: Disability Rhetorics and the Comics Medium -- 2 "When you have no voice, you don't exist"?: Envisioning Disability in David Small's Stitches -- 3 The Hidden Architecture of Disability: Chris Ware's Building Stories -- 4 Standing Orders: Oracle, Disability, and Retconning -- 5 Drawing Disability: Superman, Huntington's, and the Comic Form in It's a Bird … -- 6 Reading in Pictures: Re-visioning Autism and Literature through the Medium of Manga -- 7 Graphic Violence in Word and Image: Reimagining Closure in The Ride Together -- 8 "Why Couldn't You Let Me Die?": Cyborg, Social Death, and Narratives of Black Disability -- 9 "You Only Need Three Senses for This": The Disruptive Potentiality of Cyborg Helen Keller -- 10 Cripping the Bat: Troubling Images of Batman -- 11 Breaking Up [at/with] Illness Narratives -- 12 Thinking through Thea: Alison Bechdel's Representations of Disability -- Index.

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