Investigação sobre o discurso da autobiografia em quadrinhos desenvolvida nos Estados Unidos e Brasil, concentrada, principalmente, na obra de Robert Crumb e Angeli. Seguindo a primeira fase do método arqueológico e a teoria do discurso definida por Michel Foucault, a tese se empenha em determinar as condições históricas de possibilidade desse discurso e em efetuar uma análise formal desses objetos materiais. Para tanto, alia-se diversas proposições teóricas advindas do campo da autobiografia, arte, cinema, jornalismo e quadrinhos / Research about the discourse of the autobiographical comics created in United States and Brazil, mainly focusing on the works by Robert Crumb and Angeli. Following the first stage of the archaeological description and Michel Foucault\'s discourse theories, the thesis engages in determining the historical conditions that made this discourse possible and perform a formal analysis of their materials objects. For this purpose, theoretical propositions from different academic fields as autobiography, art, cinema, journalism and comic books are put together

Graphic Intimacies: Identity, Humor, and Trauma in Autobiographical Comics by Women of Color examines works of comics art about the lived experience of the comics’ creator. These graphic narratives address racialized difference and the construction of identity while also using humor to negotiate their narrations of traumatic events. I argue that these creators employ the structure of comics to replicate the fragmentary nature of memory. Comics allow for the representation of trauma as being intimately linked to corporeality. The comics medium allows creators to make visible and present fractured versions of the self, a product of traumatic fragmentation. Drawing traumatic memories becomes a symbolic enactment of transformation. Comics become a way of coping with the fragmentary nature of traumatic memory, permitting a consolidation of memory even when a totality is impossible. Graphic Intimacies examines representative texts by four autobiographical cartoonists: Lynda Barry, Belle Yang, MariNaomi, and Whit Taylor. Each of these cartoonists engages in critiques of social issues through the negotiation of a multilayered identity. For instance, Barry’s One Hundred Demons (2002) explores her identity as a white-passing Filipino American growing up in a low-income neighborhood. In Forget Sorrow: An Ancestral Tale (2011), Yang a Taiwanese born Chinese American artist, tells the story of her father’s family in order to heal from the trauma of intimate partner abuse. Biracial Japanese American artist MariNaomi explores her disconnection from her Japanese heritage while chronicling her experiences working in Japanese-style hostess bars in Turning Japanese (2016).

Investigação sobre o discurso da autobiografia em quadrinhos desenvolvida nos Estados Unidos e Brasil, concentrada, principalmente, na obra de Robert Crumb e Angeli. Seguindo a primeira fase do método arqueológico e a teoria do discurso definida por Michel Foucault, a tese se empenha em determinar as condições históricas de possibilidade desse discurso e em efetuar uma análise formal desses objetos materiais. Para tanto, alia-se diversas proposições teóricas advindas do campo da autobiografia, arte, cinema, jornalismo e quadrinhos / Research about the discourse of the autobiographical comics created in United States and Brazil, mainly focusing on the works by Robert Crumb and Angeli. Following the first stage of the archaeological description and Michel Foucault\'s discourse theories, the thesis engages in determining the historical conditions that made this discourse possible and perform a formal analysis of their materials objects. For this purpose, theoretical propositions from different academic fields as autobiography, art, cinema, journalism and comic books are put together