Palgrave Studies in Comics and Graphic Novels: Five Stories

Viljoen, Jeanne-Marie

This book discusses five recent, hand-drawn, comics memoirs of women’s mental health experiences, not easily captured in words alone. It deals with a range of mental health experiences that are not simply diagnoseable mental disorders, and do not always stem from visible physical conditions (heavy feelings, loneliness, postpartum depression, grief, schizophrenia and suicide). Yet, by also considering the formal qualities of these stories, it is able to focus on embodied aspects of experience, inflecting these with perspectives from a range of women of various ages, sexualities, genders, races and cultures. This book demonstrates how comics are an effective, interdisciplinary means of communicating women’s mental health and wellbeing.

Details

Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2025-10-02

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9783031982644

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-98265-1

Dimensions: 210cm x148cm

Pages: 142