{"product_id":"contagious-imagination-the-work-and-art-of-lynda-barry-9781496839800","title":"Contagious Imagination: The Work and Art of Lynda Barry","description":"Contributions by Frederick Luis Aldama, Melissa Burgess, Susan Kirtley, Rachel Luria, Ursula Murray Husted, Mark O'Connor, Allan Pero, Davida Pines, Tara Prescott-Johnson, Jane Tolmie, Rachel Trousdale, Elaine Claire Villacorta, and Glenn Willmott \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLynda Barry (b. 1956) is best known for her distinctive style and unique voice, first popularized in her underground weekly comic \u003ci\u003eErnie Pook's Comeek\u003c\/i\u003e. Since then, she has published prolifically, including numerous comics, illustrated novels, and nonfiction books exploring the creative process. Barry's work is genre- and form-bending, often using collage to create what she calls \"word with drawing\" vignettes. Her art, imaginative and self-reflective, allows her to discuss gender, race, relationships, memory, and her personal, everyday lived experience. It is through this experience that Barry examines the creative process and offers to readers ways to record and examine their own lives. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The essays in \u003ci\u003eContagious Imagination: The Work and Art of Lynda Barry\u003c\/i\u003e, edited by Jane Tolmie, study the pedagogy of Barry's work and its application academically and practically. Examining Barry's career and work from the point of view of research-creation, \u003ci\u003eContagious Imagination\u003c\/i\u003e applies Barry's unique mixture of teaching, art, learning, and creativity to the very form of the volume, exploring Barry's imaginative praxis and offering readers their own. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e With a foreword by Frederick Luis Aldama and an afterword by Glenn Willmott, this volume explores the impact of Barry's work in and out of the classroom. Divided into four sections--Teaching and Learning, which focuses on critical pedagogy; Comics and Autobiography, which targets various practices of \u003ci\u003erememorying\u003c\/i\u003e; Cruddy, a self-explanatory category that offers two extraordinary critical interventions into Barry criticism around a challenging text; and Research-Creation, which offers two creative, synthetic artistic pieces that embody and enact Barry's own mixed academic and creative investments--this book offers numerous inroads into Barry's idiosyncratic imagination and what it can teach us about ourselves.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jane Tolmie\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University Press of Mississippi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/27\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSeries:\u003c\/b\u003e Critical Approaches to Comics Artists\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 212\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.64lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.45d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781496839800","brand":"University Press of Mississippi","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42710617587849,"sku":"9781496839800","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_81e037ef-d264-4be1-aab4-4ef54a17d129.jpg?v=1719539965","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/contagious-imagination-the-work-and-art-of-lynda-barry-9781496839800","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}