A/effective Bodies: A Review of Eszter Szép’s Comics and The Body: Drawing, Reading, and Vulnerability (2020)
This review offers a critical overview of Eszter Szép’s Comics and The Body: Drawing, Reading, and Vulnerability (2020), a text that formulates a model of embodied interpretation and creation that establishes a dialogue between reader and artist based on their shared vulnerability. In this review th...
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| description | This review offers a critical overview of Eszter Szép’s Comics and The Body: Drawing, Reading, and Vulnerability (2020), a text that formulates a model of embodied interpretation and creation that establishes a dialogue between reader and artist based on their shared vulnerability. In this review the author explores Szép’s utilisation of the line and the materiality of the comic as an expression of and engagement with the body and vulnerability across comics dealing with trauma, illness, and war. Szép’s innovative consideration of the body of the reader is highlighted as an interpretive tool, a theory that comes from her own embodied reactions to these comics. In the second half of this review, the implications of Szép’s approach to vulnerability and the body are considered with regards to the Covid-19 pandemic, disability, and graphic medicine, drawing from the recent discourse of vulnerability by disabled people, the social model of disability and its limitations, and Thomas Couser's critical work on the field and genre of graphic medicine. Rather than seeing this as a limitation of the text, the author asks whether Szép’s methodology could be adopted to answer these and similar questions and point to work she already appears to be doing is such a direction. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-a2da4e8096b24118b343c17c354927fe2023-08-01T14:29:32ZengOpen Library of HumanitiesThe Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship2048-07922021-08-0111110.16995/cg.4796A/effective Bodies: A Review of Eszter Szép’s Comics and The Body: Drawing, Reading, and Vulnerability (2020)Andrew Godfrey-Meers0University of DundeeThis review offers a critical overview of Eszter Szép’s Comics and The Body: Drawing, Reading, and Vulnerability (2020), a text that formulates a model of embodied interpretation and creation that establishes a dialogue between reader and artist based on their shared vulnerability. In this review the author explores Szép’s utilisation of the line and the materiality of the comic as an expression of and engagement with the body and vulnerability across comics dealing with trauma, illness, and war. Szép’s innovative consideration of the body of the reader is highlighted as an interpretive tool, a theory that comes from her own embodied reactions to these comics. In the second half of this review, the implications of Szép’s approach to vulnerability and the body are considered with regards to the Covid-19 pandemic, disability, and graphic medicine, drawing from the recent discourse of vulnerability by disabled people, the social model of disability and its limitations, and Thomas Couser's critical work on the field and genre of graphic medicine. Rather than seeing this as a limitation of the text, the author asks whether Szép’s methodology could be adopted to answer these and similar questions and point to work she already appears to be doing is such a direction.https://www.comicsgrid.com/article/id/4796/DisabilityEmbodimentGraphic MedicineIllnessTrauma |
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| title | A/effective Bodies: A Review of Eszter Szép’s Comics and The Body: Drawing, Reading, and Vulnerability (2020) |
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