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(Not) Lost in the Margins: Gender and Identity in Graphic Texts
- Mosaic: a journal for the interdisciplinary study of literature
- Mosaic, an interdisciplinary critical journal
- Volume 47, Number 4, December 2014
- pp. 73-97
- 10.1353/mos.2014.0042
- Article
- Additional Information
Female graphic writers have been under-represented in scholarship about the emerging field. This essay argues that Marjane Satrapi, Alison Bechdel, and Rutu Modan use the genre to push in from the (literal and metaphorical) margins to challenge literary, sexual, and nationalist norms through both their storylines and their illustrations.