My kid could do that: Lynda Barry and subversive writing for everyone / Glenn Willmott. Brief introduction: contagious imagination / Jane Tolmie -- Afterword. Hand-drawn images and playful pedagogy: experiencing Lynda Barry's "Writing the Unthinkable" / Melissa Burgess ; Interventionist teaching: (re)writing trauma in the work of Lynda Barry / Mark O'Connor ; Lynda Barry's Syllabus, neuroscience, and "the thing we call creativity" / Davida Pines ; Syllabus on the syllabus: teaching Lynda Barry in the college classroom / Tara Lynn Prescott-Johnson -- Comics and autobiography. In the orbit of the cephalopod: What It Is and artistic education / Allan Pero ; Autobiography and the empathic imagination in Ernie Pook's Comeek / Rachel Trousdale -- Cruddy. "Dear anyone who finds this": Cruddy as diary fiction / Susan Kirtley ; Confusions so horror-bright: class and gender in Lynda Barry's Cruddy / Rachel Luria -- Research-creation. Me and Lynda Barry: an autoethnographic and artistic response / Elaine Claire M. Villacorta ; Big ideas / Ursula Murray Husted -- Afterword. My kid could do that: Lynda Barry and subversive writing for everyone / Glenn Willmott.
Summary:
"Lynda Barry (b. 1956) is best known for her distinctive style and unique voice, first popularized in her underground weekly comic Ernie Pook's Comeek. Since then, she has published prolifically, including numerous comics, illustrated novels, and nonfiction books exploring the creative process. Barry's work is genre- and form-bending, often using collage to create what she calls "word with drawing" vignettes. Her art, imaginative and self-reflective, allows her to discuss gender, race, relationships, memory, and her personal, everyday lived experience. It is through this experience that Barry examines the creative process and offers to readers ways to record and examine their own lives. The essays in Contagious Imagination: The Work and Art of Lynda Barry, edited by Jane Tolmie, study the pedagogy of Barry's work and its application academically and practically. Examining Barry's career and work from the point of view of research-creation, Contagious Imagination applies Barry's unique mixture of teaching, art, learning, and creativity to the very form of the volume, exploring Barry's imaginative praxis and offering readers their own. With a foreword by Frederick Luis Aldama and an afterword by Glenn Willmott, this volume explores the impact of Barry's work in and out of the classroom. Divided into four sections-Teaching and Learning, which focuses on critical pedagogy; Comics and Autobiography, which targets various practices of rememorying; Cruddy, a self-explanatory category that offers two extraordinary critical interventions into Barry criticism around a challenging text; and Research-Creation, which offers two creative, synthetic artistic pieces that embody and enact Barry's own mixed academic and creative investments-this book offers numerous inroads into Barry's idiosyncratic imagination and what it can teach us about ourselves"-- Provided by publisher.
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