- Title Pages
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
-
1 “This Is a Well-Loved Book”: Weighing (in on) Jeff Smith’s Bone -
2 “What Is China but a People and Their (Visual) Stories?” The Synthetic in Narratives of Contest in Gene Luen Yang’s Boxers & Saints -
3 Comics, Adolescents, and the Language of Mental Illness: David Heatley’s “Overpeck” and Nate Powell’s Swallow Me Whole -
4 Not Haunted, Just Empty: Figurative Representation in Sarah Oleksyk’s Ivy -
5 “Are You an Artist like Me?!” Do-It-Yourself Diary Books, Critical Reading, and Reader Interaction within the Worlds of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid and Dork Diaries Series -
6 Parodic Potty Humor and Superheroic Potentiality in Dav Pilkey’s The Adventures of Captain Underpants -
7 Multimodality Is Magic: My Little Pony and Transmedia Strategies in Children’s Comics -
8 Framing Agency: Comics Adaptations of Coraline and City of Ember -
9 From Who-ville to Hereville: Integrating Graphic Novels into an Undergraduate Children’s Literature Course -
10 Looking beyond the Scenes: Spatial Storytelling and Masking in Shaun Tan’s The Arrival -
11 When Young Writers Draw Their Voices: Creating Hybrid Comic Memoirs with The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian -
12 Unbalanced on the Brink: Adolescent Girls and the Discovery of the Self in Skim and This One Summer by Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki -
13 The Drama of Coming Out: Censorship and Drama by Raina Telgemeier -
14 “What the Junk?” Defeating the Velociraptor in the Outhouse with the Lumberjanes -
15 Engendering Friendship: Exploring Jewish and Vampiric Boyhood in Joann Sfar’s Little Vampire -
16 Gothic Excess and the Body in Vera Brosgol’s Anya’s Ghost -
17 Graphically/Ubiquitously Separate: The Sanctified Littering of Jack T. Chick’s Fundy-Queer Comics -
18 Waiting for Spider-Man: Representations of Urban School “Reform” in Marvel Comics’ Miles Morales Series -
19 “Walk Together, Children”: The Function and Interplay of Comics, History, and Memory in Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story and John Lewis’s March: Book One -
20 Sita’s Ramayana’s Negotiation with an Indian Epic Picture Storytelling Tradition -
Coda Whether We Want Them or Not: Building an Aesthetic of Children’s Digital Comics - Contributors
- Index
The Drama of Coming Out: Censorship and Drama by Raina Telgemeier
The Drama of Coming Out: Censorship and Drama by Raina Telgemeier
- Chapter:
- (p.205) 13 The Drama of Coming Out: Censorship and Drama by Raina Telgemeier
- Source:
- Graphic Novels for Children and Young Adults
- Author(s):
Eti Berland
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
This chapter presents a reading of Raina Telgemieier's Drama, a graphic novel that focuses on a whirlwind theatrical production in a middle school, as well as the emotional complications and romantic mishaps of its company. Since its release in 2012, the graphic novel has received the Stonewall Honor from the American Library Association's Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Round Table; a nomination for a Harvey Award for excellence in comics; and appearances on prestigious booklists like the Young Adult Library Services Association's Great Graphic Novels for Teens Top Ten among others. The chapter discusses the importance of including LGBTQ friendly comics in school and community libraries, and utilizes new constructions about gender-queer identity and nonheteronormative sexualities in the analysis of comics.
Keywords: graphic novel, Raina Telgemeier, Drama, homosexuality, coming out
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- Title Pages
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
-
1 “This Is a Well-Loved Book”: Weighing (in on) Jeff Smith’s Bone -
2 “What Is China but a People and Their (Visual) Stories?” The Synthetic in Narratives of Contest in Gene Luen Yang’s Boxers & Saints -
3 Comics, Adolescents, and the Language of Mental Illness: David Heatley’s “Overpeck” and Nate Powell’s Swallow Me Whole -
4 Not Haunted, Just Empty: Figurative Representation in Sarah Oleksyk’s Ivy -
5 “Are You an Artist like Me?!” Do-It-Yourself Diary Books, Critical Reading, and Reader Interaction within the Worlds of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid and Dork Diaries Series -
6 Parodic Potty Humor and Superheroic Potentiality in Dav Pilkey’s The Adventures of Captain Underpants -
7 Multimodality Is Magic: My Little Pony and Transmedia Strategies in Children’s Comics -
8 Framing Agency: Comics Adaptations of Coraline and City of Ember -
9 From Who-ville to Hereville: Integrating Graphic Novels into an Undergraduate Children’s Literature Course -
10 Looking beyond the Scenes: Spatial Storytelling and Masking in Shaun Tan’s The Arrival -
11 When Young Writers Draw Their Voices: Creating Hybrid Comic Memoirs with The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian -
12 Unbalanced on the Brink: Adolescent Girls and the Discovery of the Self in Skim and This One Summer by Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki -
13 The Drama of Coming Out: Censorship and Drama by Raina Telgemeier -
14 “What the Junk?” Defeating the Velociraptor in the Outhouse with the Lumberjanes -
15 Engendering Friendship: Exploring Jewish and Vampiric Boyhood in Joann Sfar’s Little Vampire -
16 Gothic Excess and the Body in Vera Brosgol’s Anya’s Ghost -
17 Graphically/Ubiquitously Separate: The Sanctified Littering of Jack T. Chick’s Fundy-Queer Comics -
18 Waiting for Spider-Man: Representations of Urban School “Reform” in Marvel Comics’ Miles Morales Series -
19 “Walk Together, Children”: The Function and Interplay of Comics, History, and Memory in Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story and John Lewis’s March: Book One -
20 Sita’s Ramayana’s Negotiation with an Indian Epic Picture Storytelling Tradition -
Coda Whether We Want Them or Not: Building an Aesthetic of Children’s Digital Comics - Contributors
- Index
