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DESCRIPTION:Event Name: Graphic Women: Comics\, Autobiography\, and Mapping
  Memory\nEvent Url: http://www.artsboston.org/event/detail/441083203/Graph
 ic_Women_Comics_Autobiography_and_Mapping_Memory\nEvent Date Begin: 2011-0
 4-14\nEvent Date End: 2011-04-15\n\nLynda Barry and Alison Bechdel have cr
 eated two of the most significant autobiographies of the 21st-century&mdas
 h\;in comics form. Graphic Women will focus on how two of the most importa
 nt living cartoonists have presented aspects of their lives in both words 
 and images\, for comics autobiographies have changed the field of contempo
 rary narrative.  How are lives mapped out in words and images? How does dr
 awing\, in addition to writing\, capture memory? How do images express the
  past?  Bechdel has said\, &ldquo\;I always felt like there was something 
 inherently autobiographical about cartooning\,&rdquo\; while Barry has rem
 arked\, &ldquo\;I always think of images as lowering the drawbridge where 
 stuff can cross over&mdash\;memory.&rdquo\; What does this innovative form
  of comics bring to the presentation of private and public histories?\n\nG
 raphic Women: Life Narrative and Contemporary Comics\n\nA lecture by Hilla
 ry Chute\, Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of English\, University of 
 Chicago on comics and memoir including analysis of Lynda Barry's and Aliso
 n Bechdel's work.\n\nMapping Memory:  Readings by Lynda Barry and Alison B
 echdel\n\nReadings by Lynda Barry and Alison Bechdel\, followed by convers
 ation moderated by Hillary Chute.\n\nLynda Barry \n\nLynda has worked as a
  painter\, cartoonist\, writer\, illustrator\, playwright\, editor\, comme
 ntator and teacher and found they are very much alike. She is the inimitab
 le creator behind Ernie Pook's Comeek\, featuring the incomparable Marlys 
 and Freddy\, as well as the books One! Hundred! Demons!\, The! Greatest! o
 f! Marlys!\, Cruddy: An Illustrated Novel\, Naked Ladies! Naked Ladies! Na
 ked Ladies!\, The Good Times are Killing Me\, which was adapted as an off-
 Broadway musical and won the Washington State Governor's Award. Her bestse
 lling and acclaimed book\, What It Is\, won the Eisner Award for Best Real
 ity Based Graphic Novel and R.R. Donnelly Award for highest literary achie
 vement by a Wisconsin author. Its sequel\, Picture This: The Near-Sighted 
 Monkey Book was published last fall.\n\nAlison Bechdel \n\nSince its incep
 tion in 1983\, Alison Bechdel's comic strip Dykes To Watch Out For has bec
 ome a countercultural institution. The strip is syndicated in dozens of ne
 wspapers\, translated into several languages and collected in a series of 
 award-winning books. Comics Journal says\, &ldquo\;Bechdel's art distills 
 the pleasures of Friends and The Nation\; we recognize our world in it\, w
 ith its sorrows and ironies.&rdquo\;  In 2006\, Houghton Mifflin published
  her graphic memoir\, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic. The bestselling comin
 g-of-age tale has been called a &ldquo\;mesmerizing feat of familial resur
 rection&rdquo\; and a &ldquo\;rare\, prime example of why graphic novels h
 ave taken over the conversation about American literature.&rdquo\; Time ma
 gazine named Fun Home number one of its '10 Best Books of the Year.' Fun H
 ome was a finalist for the 2006 National Book Critics Circle Award in the 
 memoir/autobiography category. It also won the 2007 Eisner Award for Best 
 Reality-Based Work.\n\nHillary Chute \n\nHillary Chute is the Neubaeuer Fa
 mily Assistant Professor of English at the University of Chicago and at th
 e forefront of scholarship on graphic narrative and its relationship to mo
 re traditionally text-based literature.  She is particularly interested in
  the connections between word and image\, fiction and nonfiction that can 
 be found in contemporary comics\, a field with roots in the 1970s but also
  connected to deeper histories of drawn reportage and visual witnessing. H
 er book Graphic Women: Life Narrative and Contemporary Comics examines the
  graphic narrative work of five authors\, including Alison Bechdel and Mar
 jane Satrapi\, arguing that the medium of comics has opened up new spaces 
 for nonfiction narrative&mdash\;particularly for expressing certain kinds 
 of stories typically relegated to the realm of the private.   Chute is ass
 ociate editor of Art Spiegelman's MetaMaus and has written about comics an
 d culture for venues including The Village Voice and the Believer.\n\nStar
 t time: April 14 / 4:30pm\n\nApril 15 / 7:30pm
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SUMMARY:Graphic Women: Comics\, Autobiography\, and Mapping Memory
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