Table of Contents
Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Foreword; Rosemarie Garland-Thomson 1. Introduction: From Feats of Clay to Narrative Prose/thesis; Zach Whalen, Chris Foss, and Jonathan W. Gray 2. Mutable Articulations: Disability Rhetorics and the Comics Medium; Jay Dolmage and Dale Jacobs 3. 'when you have no voice, you don't exist'? Envisioning Disability in David Small's Stitches; Christina Maria Koch 4. The Hidden Architecture of Disability: Chris Ware's Building Stories; Todd A. Comer 5. Standing Orders: Oracle, Disability, and Retconning; José Alaniz 6. Drawing Disability: Superman, Huntington's, and the Comic Form in It's a Bird…; Mariah Crilley 7. Reading in Pictures: Re-Visioning Autism and Literature through the Medium of Manga; Chris Foss 8. Graphic Violence in Word and Image: Re-Imagining Closure in The Ride Together; Shannon Walters 9. 'Why Couldn't You Let Me Die?': Cyborg, Social Death, and Narratives of Disability; Jonathan W. Gray 10. 'You Only Need Three Senses for This': The Disruptive Potentiality of Cyborg Helen Keller; Laurie Ann Carlson 11. Cripping the Bat: Troubling Images of Batman; Daniel Preston 12. Breaking Up [at/with] Illness Narratives; Kristen Gay 13. Thinking through Thea: Alison Bechdel's Representations of Disability; Margaret Galvan Index