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Self-Regarding Art
- Biography
- University of Hawai'i Press
- Volume 31, Number 1, Winter 2008
- pp. v-xxiii
- 10.1353/bio.0.0004
- Article
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This Introduction to the Biography Special Issue on "Autographics" maps a field of texts and critical practices which are emerging in the rapidly changing visual and textual cultures of autobiography. Beginning with a survey of current thinking about the comics, it argues for autographic criticism as a practice that engages with new modes and media, such as graffiti and online social networking, where autobiographical narrative proliferates through fusions of the visual and the textual.