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Gone to the Grave - Abby Burnett - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

Gone to the Grave - Abby Burnett - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

Before there was a death care industrywhere professional funeral directorsoffered embalming and other services,residents of the Arkansas Ozarks-and,for that matter, people throughout theSouth-buried their own dead. Everypart of the complicated, labor-intensiveprocess was handled within thedeceased''s community. This processincluded preparation of the body forburial, making a wooden coffin, diggingthe grave, and overseeing theburial ceremony, as well as observing awide variety of customs and superstitions.These traditions, especially in ruralcommunities, remained the norm upthrough the end of World War II, afterwhich a variety of factors, primarily theloss of manpower and the rise of thefuneral industry, brought about theend of most customs.Gone to the Grave, a meticulous autopsy of this now vanishedway of life and death, documents mourning and practical ritualsthrough interviews, diaries and reminiscences, obituaries, anda wide variety of other sources. Abby Burnett covers attemptsto stave off death; passings that, for various reasons, could notbe mourned according to tradition; factors contributing to highmaternal and infant mortality; and the ways in which loss wasexpressed through obituaries and epitaphs. A concluding chapterexamines early undertaking practices and the many anglesfuneral industry professionals worked to convince the public ofthe need for their services.Abby Burnett, Kingston, Arkansas, is a former freelance newspaperreporter. She is the author of When the Presbyterians Came toKingston: Kingston Community Church, 1917-1951.

DKK 858.00
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Drawing from Life - - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

Drawing from Life - - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

Essays that query the roles of trust, truth, and family memoirs in autobiographical comicsEssays by Jan Baetens, David M. Ball, Lopamudra Basu, Christopher Bush, Isaac Cates, Michael A. Chaney, Alisia Chase, Sharon O''Brien, Davida Pines, Yaël Schlick, Rachel Trousdale, and Benjamin WidissAutobiography has seen enormous expansions and challenges over the past decades. One of these expansions has been in comics, and it is an expansion that pushes back against any postmodern notion of the death of the author/subject, while also demanding new approaches from critics.Drawing from Life: Memory and Subjectivity in Comic Art is a collection of essays about autobiography, semiautobiography, fictionalized autobiography, memory, and self-narration in sequential art, or comics. Contributors come from a range of academic backgrounds including English, American studies, comparative literature, gender studies, art history, and cultural studies. The book engages with wellknown figures such as Art Spiegelman, Marjane Satrapi, and Alison Bechdel; with cult-status figures such as Martin Vaughn James; and with lesser-known works by artists such as Frédéric Boilet.Negotiations between artist/writer/ body and drawn/written/text raise questions of how comics construct identity, and are read and perceived, requiring a critical turn towards theorizing the comics'' viewer. At stake in comic memoir and semi-autobiography is embodiment. Remembering a scene with the intent of rendering it in sequential art requires nonlinear thinking and engagement with physicality. Who was in the room and where? What was worn? Who spoke first? What images dominated the encounter? Did anybody smile? Man or mouse? Unhinged from the summary paragraph, the comics artist must confront the fact of the flesh, or the corporeal world, and they do so with fascinating results.Jane Tolmie, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, is associate professor of gender studies and cultural studies, cross-appointed to English at Queen''s University. Find her at http://www.queensu.ca/gnds/tolmie.php

DKK 858.00
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Drawing from Life - - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

Drawing from Life - - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

Essays that query the roles of trust, truth, and family memoirs in autobiographical comicsEssays by Jan Baetens, David M. Ball, Lopamudra Basu, Christopher Bush, Isaac Cates, Michael A. Chaney, Alisia Chase, Sharon O''Brien, Davida Pines, Yaël Schlick, Rachel Trousdale, and Benjamin WidissAutobiography has seen enormous expansions and challenges over the past decades. One of these expansions has been in comics, and it is an expansion that pushes back against any postmodern notion of the death of the author/subject, while also demanding new approaches from critics.Drawing from Life: Memory and Subjectivity in Comic Art is a collection of essays about autobiography, semiautobiography, fictionalized autobiography, memory, and self-narration in sequential art, or comics. Contributors come from a range of academic backgrounds including English, American studies, comparative literature, gender studies, art history, and cultural studies. The book engages with wellknown figures such as Art Spiegelman, Marjane Satrapi, and Alison Bechdel; with cult-status figures such as Martin Vaughn James; and with lesser-known works by artists such as Frédéric Boilet.Negotiations between artist/writer/ body and drawn/written/text raise questions of how comics construct identity, and are read and perceived, requiring a critical turn towards theorizing the comics'' viewer. At stake in comic memoir and semi-autobiography is embodiment. Remembering a scene with the intent of rendering it in sequential art requires nonlinear thinking and engagement with physicality. Who was in the room and where? What was worn? Who spoke first? What images dominated the encounter? Did anybody smile? Man or mouse? Unhinged from the summary paragraph, the comics artist must confront the fact of the flesh, or the corporeal world, and they do so with fascinating results.Jane Tolmie, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, is associate professor of gender studies and cultural studies, cross-appointed to English at Queen''s University. Find her at http://www.queensu.ca/gnds/tolmie.php

DKK 312.00
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