Chinmay Murali and Sathyaraj Venkatesan, "Infertility Comics and Graphic Medicine" (Routledge, 2021)
Infertility Comics and Graphic Medicine\xa0(Routledge, 2021)\xa0examines women\u2019s graphic memoirs on infertility, foregrounding the complex interrelationship between women\u2019s life writing, infertility studies, and graphic medicine.\nThrough a scholarly examination of the artists\u2019 use of visual-verbal codes of the comics medium in narrating their physical ordeals and affective challenges occasioned by infertility, the book seeks to foreground the intricacies of gender identity, embodiment, subjectivity, and illness experience. Providing long-overdue scholarly attention on the perspectives of autobiographical and comics studies, the authors examine the gendered nature of the infertility experience and the notion of motherhood as an ideological force which interpolates socio-cultural discourses, accentuating the potential of graphic medicine as a creative space for the infertile women to voice their hitherto silenced perspectives on childlessness with force and urgency.\nThis interdisciplinary volume will be of interest to scholars and students in comics studies, the health humanities, literature, and women\u2019s and gender studies, and will also be suitable for readers in visual studies and narrative medicine.\nVictoria Oana Lupa\u0219cu is an Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and Asian Studies at University of Montr\xe9al. Her areas of interest include medical humanities, visual art, 20th and 21st Chinese, Brazilian and Romanian literature and Global South studies.\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices\nSupport our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/gender-studies