Body image/imagining bodies: Trauma, control, and healing in graphic memoirs about anorexia

<p>Over the past decade, there has been a significant increase of graphic narratives focusing on the intersection of comics and medicine, a subgenre known as graphic medicine. These memoirs, known as graphic pathographies, are written from those who interact with disease in various capacities from patient, to doctor, to caregiver. This project closely examines three graphic pathographies written about the eating disorder anorexia nervosa. Prior writing, both fictional and personal memoir, on anorexia has often been considered as problematic for its ability to function as a how-to manual for anorexics. Anorexia is a complex disease that exists largely within the mind of the anorexic, yet its toll can be visibly seen on the body. Graphic pathographies, with their ability to simultaneously show through the visual format and tell through the verbal format, offer a more nuanced and holistic representation of one’s encounter with anorexia.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Arts (MA)

Level thesis:degree_level

Open Access Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

English Language and Literature

Year dc:date.available

2020

Author dc:creator

• Gatchel, Kristine M.

Contributors dc:contributor

• Annette Wannamaker, Ph.D.
• Amanda K. Allen, Ph.D.

• Anorexia Nervosa
• Graphic Medicine
• Graphic Narrative
• Young Adult Literature
• Children's and Young Adult Literature
• English Language and Literature

Repository record dc:identifier

https://commons.emich.edu/theses/1022

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:commons.emich.edu:theses-2391