Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-288) and index.
Contents:
A delicate dance with demons: Kabi Nagata's My lesbian experience with loneliness (2016). Women of color in queer(ed) space: Ann-Marie MacDonald's Fall on your knees (1997) -- Queer(y)ing the punk aesthetic: reading race, desire and anarchism in Cristy C. Road's Bad habits (2008) -- Narrating the margins: queer words and sexual trauma in the "gutter": Gloria Naylor's The women of Brewster Place (1982) -- Critical meditations on love and madness: Emma PeĢrez's Gulf dreams (1996) -- Body crossings: gender, signifying and misdirection in Jaime Cortez's Sexile/Sexilio (2004) -- A long journey to her own queer self: Beldan Sezen's Snapshots of a girl (2015) -- A delicate dance with demons: Kabi Nagata's My lesbian experience with loneliness (2016).
Summary:
"Queer women of color have historically been underrepresented or excluded completely in fiction and comics. When present, they are depicted as "less than" the white, Eurocentric norm. Drawing on semiotics, queer theory, and gender studies, this book addresses the imbalanced representation of queer women of color in graphic narratives and fiction and explores ways of rewriting queer women of color back into the frame. The author interrogates what it means to be "Other" and how "Othering" can be more creatively resisted" -- Provided by publisher.
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