On this page, you can connect with books recommended by your professor for this course. The brief descriptions are adapted from publisher descriptions. For more suggestions and information on how to find more books at the library, check out the Find more books about graphic novels at the Killam page.
Author: Victoria Aarons
Format: ebook
Employing memory as her controlling trope, Aarons analyzes the work of the graphic novelists and illustrators, making clear how they extend the traumatic narrative of the Holocaust into the present and, in doing so, give voice to survival in the wake of unrecoverable loss.
Author: Jeff Adams
Format: Print, Killam Library, PN 6714 A33 2008
Analyses graphic novels which document social crises. It demonstrates that artists’ documentary use of this medium is a form of social realism, inextricably bound up with politics and ideology.
Authors: Jan Baetens & Hugo Frey
Format: Print, Killam Library, PN 6710 B235 2015
Addresses questions such as, How do we read graphic novels as narrative forms? What theories are developing to explain the genre? How is this form blurring the categories of high and popular literature? Why are graphic novelists nostalgic for the old comics?
Author: Michael A. Chaney
Formats: Print, Killam Library, PN 6710 G7375 2011, and ebook
Brings together a lively mix of scholars to examine the use of autobiography within graphic novels.
Author: Hillary L. Chute
Formats: Print, Killam Library, PN 6714 C49 2010, and ebook
Some of the most acclaimed books of the twenty-first century are autobiographical comics by women. Chute explores their verbal and visual techniques, which have transformed autobiographical narrative and contemporary comics.
Editors: Dominick Grace & Eric R. Hoffman
Format: Print, Killam Library Special Collections (5th floor), PN 6731 C36 2018. On-site use only.
Looks at the myriad ways that English-language, Francophone, Indigenous, and queer Canadian comics and cartoonists pose alternatives to American comics, to dominant perceptions, even to gender and racial categories.
Editor: Richard Iadonisi
Format: ebook
This collection of fourteen essays explores the unique ways in which graphic novels can aid us in addressing those issues while shedding new light on a variety of texts.
Author: Karin Kukkonen
Format: Print, Killam Library, PN 6710 K84 2013
A structured guide deploying new cognitive methods of textual analysis and features activities and exercises throughout.
Editor: Jeff McLaughlin
Format: Print, Killam Library, PN 6712 G69 2017
Each contributor ponders a well-known graphic novel to illuminate ways in which philosophy can untangle particular combinations of image and written word for deeper understanding.
Author: Golnar Nabizadeh
Format: ebook
By focusing on a range of landmark comics from the 20th and 21st centuries, the discussion draws attention to the ongoing role of visual culture in framing testimony, particularly in relation to underprivileged subjects.
Editors: Tatiana Prorokova & Nimrod Tal
Format: ebook
Examines the representation of small-scale and often less acknowledged conflicts from around the world and throughout history.
Editor: Stephen Ely Tabachnick
Format: ebook
Examines the evolution of comic books into graphic novels and the distinct development of this art form. Also explores the diverse subgenres often associated with it, such as journalism, fiction, historical fiction, autobiography, biography, science fiction and fantasy.
