This woman's work
Record details
- ISBN: 1770463453
- ISBN: 9781770463455 (paperback) :
- Physical Description: 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 20 cm.
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: [Montreal, Quebec] : Drawn & Quarterly, 2019.
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Subject: | Feminism -- Comic books, strips, etc Delporte, Julie -- Comic books, strips, etc |
Genre: | Autobiographical comics. Graphic novels. Comics (Graphic works) Nonfiction comics. |
Available copies
- 3 of 3 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Salmo Public Library.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 3 total copies.
Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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Salmo Public Library | GN FIC DEL (Text) | 35163000210216 | Adult Graphic Novel | Volume hold | Available | - |
- Booklist Reviews : Booklist Reviews 2019 April #2
In vibrant drawings accompanied by bursts of evocative prose, French comics artist Delporte illustrates the memories, dreams, and journeys that led to her current understanding of being a woman. She opens the book with her father's casually derisive definition of woman's workâany job shoddily doneâmaking all that follows a defiant response. Delporte goes to Finland to research artist and writer Tove Jansson, and finds Jansson's fictional Moomins, little white trolls, everywhere. Seeing the new Star Wars movie that stars a girl-hero ends a fallow creative period: I think of the girls growing up today. Will anything be different for them? She recalls sexual trauma, a personal burden that's also the story of all women. Throughout, Delporte pays tribute to artists like photographer Rinko Kawauchi and filmmaker Chantal Akerman, reproducing their work in her own style, but faithfully, and sometimes incorporates painted or scotch-taped collage elements to her illustrations. With meandering but fast-moving text and colored-pencil strokes that seem to move drawings right on the page, reading this is akin to watching an animated art film. Copyright 2019 Booklist Reviews. - LJ Express Reviews : LJ Express Reviews
In loosely structured, leanly written vignettes spanning 2014â16 and the author's time living in Brussels, Helsinki, and Montréal and on Greek island of Mykonos and the Finnish island of Suomenlinna, French-born, Montréal-based Delporte (Everywhere Antennas) presents her own story and effectively the story of all women in this gorgeously drawn, immensely moving work that is part memoir and part feminist exploration of womanhood, motherhood, and creativity. Taking as her guides various artistic influencers, particularly Finnish illustrator Tove Jansson, whose Moomin characters Delporte has a special affinity for, the author shares intimate moments from her relationships, her subsisting rage for the patriarchy, coming to terms with the impacts of an early trauma, and her desire to start a family, all while wrestling with the precepts of femininity and staying true to oneself and one's craft. Expressionistic, mostly full-page vibrantly colored pencil drawings pair beautifully with a thoughtful narrative that readers will be in no rush to finish. VERDICT Profoundly personal, at times politically charged yet nuanced and brave, this collection is one readers will return to time and again. A wonderful addition to all graphic novels shelves.âAnnalisa PeÅ¡ek, Library Journal (c) Copyright 2019. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted. - Publishers Weekly Reviews : PW Reviews 2018 October #4
Womanhood is an education in grace under pressure in this melancholy meditation on art, femininity, and longing. Delporte has lived a life scarred by sexual assault, degradation, and diminishment on the basis of her genderâbut she also celebrates moments touched by bliss. This contradictory reality, rendered here in vibrant, feathery pencils and inks, will be familiar to many women readers. Delporte wants a child but fears the loss of autonomy that motherhood (especially as opposed to fatherhood) brings. She yearns for love, but is sent into anxious spirals by its arrival. She tries to embrace her artistic passions fully and freely, but struggles when putting pen to paper loses its joy. How, she wonders, can one live proudly as a woman when one is restrained and constrained by societal expectations and inherited anxieties? Delporte's confident linework is at once softâbeachy blues, rumpled fabricâand almost cruelly stark. By the final page, Delporte has shared no easy answers. But the cumulative effect of her work lands soft as a child's whimper and as strong as a heroine's laugh. (Jan.)
Copyright 2018 Publishers Weekly.