COD 2022 - D735

Webinar - Cultural Programme - Reading and Media Breakfasts: Gender - Neutral Language and Search for Identity in Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe. A Comic Memoir

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1 sesiones, inicia: 07-May

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Ciclo: 2022
Nivel: A Distancia
Idioma: Inglés
Estado: Terminado
Lugar: A Distancia
Capacitador/es: Martha Patricia De Cunto
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1 07 Mayo 2022 10:00 am 11:30 am

Capacitador/es

Martha Patricia De Cunto

She holds a Master of Arts in Literary Linguistics from the University of Nottingham, UK and is currently doing a PhD in Literature at the University of Buenos Aires. She is also pursuing a Master's Degree in Cultural Studies at UNR. She has been a lecturer in American Literature, Children's Literature, YAL Literature and Introduction to Literary Studies at I.E.S. Lenguas Vivas "Juan Ramón Fernández". She has also taught Creative Writing at ISP “Joaquín V. González”. She has been a teacher of Language and Literature in several schools in Buenos Aires for more than 30 years.
Language and Literature readers
Queer Gender by Maia Kobabe (2019) is a comic memoir about a girl who goes through different gender stages in “Eir”coming of age (Spivak 1990). The comic memoir questions the normative structures of sex, gender and sexuality imposed on this girl in the rural and suburban areas of the US.

The session will trace the complex search for the protagonist’s gender and sexual identity. The participants will gain a deeper understanding of the meaning of queer and non-binary gender identity.

The session will introduce different non-binary gender pronouns used in the graphic novel. It will highlight the importance of using them for transgender and gender non-conforming people so that we teachers and the public in general avoid misgendering people through language.

Since it is a graphic novel, it will grapple with the way the language of comics has been used and to what effects.


Note: Spivak, M (1990) The Joy of TeX, a Gourmet Guide to Typesetting with the AMSTeX Macro Package, Second Edition.
The seminar will use the comic memoir available online at https://readcomiconline.to/Comic/Gender-Queer-A-Memoir/TPB-Part-1?id=156661 for Part 1, at https://readcomiconline.to/Comic/Gender-Queer-A-Memoir/TPB-Part-2?id=156662 for Part 2, and at https://readcomiconline.to/Comic/Gender-Queer-A-Memoir/TPB-Part-3?id=156663 for Part 3.

You can also download the three parts of the memoir here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yxGeQvLpnYs7Anc_ev1v8wyjF_un1JZ9/view?usp=sharing
The facilitator will discuss the most important themes and will ask the participants to answer questions on the different stages of the protagonist’s search for gender identity.

Participants will be required to work on extracts to explore moments of tension in the life (etc).
Eisner, W. (1985). Comics & Sequential Art. Poorhouse Press. ISBN 978-0-9614-7281-8.

--------------- (1996). Graphic Storytelling and Visual Narrative Tamarac: Poorhouse.

Chute H.(2008) “Comics as Literature? Reading Graphic Narrative” in PMLA, Vol. 123, No. 2, pp. 452-465. Modern Language Association. http://www.jstor.org/stable/25501865.Accessed: 21/09/2014 14:26

Butler, J. (1990) Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity. New York: Routledge.

Cameron D. and Kulick, D. (eds.) (2006). The Language and Sexuality Reader. London: Routledge.

Foucault, M. (1980). The History of Sexuality. Volume I: An introduction. New York: Random House.


Harvey, K. and Shalom, C. (eds.) (1997). Language and Desire: Encoding Sex, Romance and Intimacy. London: Routledge.


Jagose, A. (1996). Queer Theory: An Introduction. Melbourne: U. of Melbourne Press.


McCloud, S.(1994). Understanding Comics. Harper Perennial.

Saraceni, M. (2003) The Language of Comics. London: Routledge.
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