Contagious Imagination: The Work and Art of Lynda Barry by Frederick Luis Aldama

Description: Contagious Imagination by Frederick Luis Aldama, Glenn Willmott, Jane Tolmie The essays in Contagious Imagination study the pedagogy of Lynda Barrys work and its application academically and practically. Examining Barrys career and work from the point of view of research-creation, the book applies Barrys unique mixture of teaching, art, learning, and creativity to the very form of the volume. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Contributions by Frederick Luis Aldama, Melissa Burgess, Susan Kirtley, Rachel Luria, Ursula Murray Husted, Mark OConnor, Allan Pero, Davida Pines, Tara Prescott-Johnson, Jane Tolmie, Rachel Trousdale, Elaine Claire Villacorta, and Glenn WillmottLynda Barry (b. 1956) is best known for her distinctive style and unique voice, first popularized in her underground weekly comic Ernie Pooks Comeek. Since then, she has published prolifically, including numerous comics, illustrated novels, and nonfiction books exploring the creative process. Barrys 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 Barrys work and its application academically and practically. Examining Barrys career and work from the point of view of research-creation, Contagious Imagination applies Barrys unique mixture of teaching, art, learning, and creativity to the very form of the volume, exploring Barrys 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 Barrys 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 Barrys own mixed academic and creative investments—this book offers numerous inroads into Barrys idiosyncratic imagination and what it can teach us about ourselves. Author Biography Jane Tolmie is associate professor in gender studies, English, and cultural studies at Queens University in Kingston, Ontario. She is a poet; feminist activist; editor of Drawing from Life: Memory and Subjectivity in Comic Art, published by University Press of Mississippi; and coeditor of Laments for the Lost in Medieval Literature. Frederick Luis Aldama, also known as Professor Latinx, is Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities and affiliate faculty in radio-TV-film at the University of Texas, Austin, as well as adjunct professor and Distinguished University Professor at The Ohio State University. He is author of over forty-eight books and has received the International Latino Book Award and an Eisner Award for Latinx Superheroes in Mainstream Comics. He is editor or coeditor of nine academic press book series, including Biographix with University Press of Mississippi. He is creator of the first documentary on the history of Latinx superheroes and founder and director of UTs Latinx Pop Lab. His Spanish translation and animation film adaptation of his childrens book The Adventures of Chupacabra Charlie (2020) will be released in the fall of 2021. He is also editor of Graphic Indigeneity: Comics in the Americas and Australasia and Jeff Smith: Conversations, both published by University Press of Mississippi. Review Contagious Imagination is as infectious as the title touts: it provides a stimulating examination of Barrys graphic storytelling, her unusual, yet efficient pedagogy, and celebrates the power of doodling, all of which contribute to the staying power of Barrys work in the canon of American comics.--Kirsten MØllegaard "Journal of American Culture"Through its earnest analysis, Contagious Imagination is contagiously liberating. The book is infused with the aliveness of its subjects guiding beliefs and teachings. . . . Readers will be inspired with a sense of bravery and confidence in their own -- possibly suppressed -- creativity.--Alexander McMillan "Broken Pencil"Tolmies Contagious Imagination is an eye-popping revelation of the entrancing stories Barry created and the ingenious but simple ways she did them. . . . Contagious Imagination will be a very useful research tool about creativity and an excellent introduction to Barry--her thinking and her works--and a facile, fascinating primer for writers. Highly recommended.--J. A. Lent "CHOICE" Long Description Contributions by Frederick Luis Aldama, Melissa Burgess, Susan Kirtley, Rachel Luria, Ursula Murray Husted, Mark O?Connor, Allan Pero, Davida Pines, Tara Prescott-Johnson, Jane Tolmie, Rachel Trousdale, Elaine Claire Villacorta, and Glenn Willmott 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. Details ISBN1496839803 Short Title Contagious Imagination Publisher University Press of Mississippi Language English Year 2022 ISBN-10 1496839803 ISBN-13 9781496839800 Format Paperback Subtitle The Work and Art of Lynda Barry Series Critical Approaches to Comics Artists Series Imprint University Press of Mississippi Place of Publication Jackson Country of Publication United States Author Jane Tolmie Pages 192 Edited by Jane Tolmie Publication Date 2022-07-27 AU Release Date 2022-07-27 NZ Release Date 2022-07-27 US Release Date 2022-07-27 UK Release Date 2022-07-27 DEWEY 741.5973 Illustrations 36 b&w illustrations Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:135462103;

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