The contributions gathered in this volume exhibit a great variety of interdisciplinary perspectives on and theoretical approaches to the notion of ' spaces between'. They draw our attention to the nexus between the medium of comics and the categories of difference as well as identity such as gender, dis/ability, age, and ethnicity, in order to open and intensify an interdisciplinary conversation between comics studies and intersectional identity studies.

First volume, which deals with important questions in the context of interdisciplinary comic research Insight into the international state of research Contributions of leading researchers

Autorentext

Nina Eckhoff-Heindl, M.A. is a research assistant at the University of Cologne and MSCA Fellow in the "a.r.t.e.s. EUmanities" program of the a.r.t.e.s. Graduate School for the Humanities Cologne. 
Dr. Véronique Sina is a Research Associate at the Department of Media Culture and Theatre at the University of Cologne and the vice president of the German Society of Comics Studies (ComFor).

Klappentext

The contributions gathered in this volume exhibit a great variety of interdisciplinary perspectives on and theoretical approaches to the notion of 'spaces between'. They draw our attention to the nexus between the medium of comics and the categories of difference as well as identity such as gender, dis/ability, age, and ethnicity, in order to open and intensify an interdisciplinary conversation between comics studies and intersectional identity studies.

Inhalt
Part One: Dis/Ability and Graphic Medicine.- Part Two: (Trans-)Cultural Identities and the (De-)Construction of Race and Ethnicity.- Part Three: Queering Comics and the Gendered Self.- Part Four: Superheroes Revisted - Intersections of Gender and Genre.- Part Five: Fluid and Fragmented Bodies in Comics. 87025118.