The Weeping Woman in the Graphic Memoir: A Derridean Inquiry into the Traces/Trait(s) of “Self ”

The Polish Journal of Aesthetics

Noelle Leslie de la Cruz¹ 

[1] De La Salle University;

关键词: jacques derrida;    graphic memoirs;    comics;    sequential art;    memoirs of the blind;    autobiography;   

DOI  :  10.19205/41.16.2

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Inthispaper,Iexaminehowwomengraphicmemoirists–MarjaneSatrapi,AlisonBechdel, and Roz Chast in particular – attempt to draw that which remains fleeting, absent,andabyssal:theso-called“self.”IthusextendJacquesDerrida’scritiqueofwhathehascalledthe“metaphysicsofpresence”inphilosophytoautobiographicalcomics, a popular medium that is heavily prefigured by his analysis of the self-portrait as a ruin. I believe this endeavor will help fill the gap in studies about the gendered as-pects of Derrida’s work Memoirs of the Blind, as well as the potential of autobiographical comics to illuminate philosophical issues concerning the self. Finally, through my analysisofwomen’sgraphicnarratives,Ihopetopointtothepossibilityofalargerproject, that of a feminist Derridean critique of sequential art.

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