Show Me Where It Hurts
Manifesting Illness and Impairment in Graphic Pathography
$108.79
- Paperback
194 pages
- Release Date
20 October 2026
Summary
In Show Me Where It Hurts, Monica Chiu argues that graphic pathography—long-form comics by and about subjects who suffer from disease or are impaired—re-vitalizes and re-visions various negatively affected corporeal states through hand-drawn images. By the body and for the body, the medium is subversive and reparative, and it stands in contradistinction to clinical accounts of illness that tend to disembody or objectify the subject.
Employing affect theory, spatial theory, vital mater…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780271096834 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0271096837 |
| Author: | Monica Chiu |
| Publisher: | Pennsylvania State University Press |
| Imprint: | Pennsylvania State University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 194 |
| Release Date: | 20 October 2026 |
| Weight: | 337g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 14mm |
| Series: | Graphic Medicine |
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Critics Review
“Monica Chiu demonstrates that the highly personalized rendering of illness experience in graphic pathographies provides readers with an embodied illness perspective that significantly differs from biomedical and clinical accounts, diagnoses, and understandings of illness. Her study on how drawing in graphic pathographies functions to retell and reimagine illness from an ill individual’s perspective is poised to make a foundational contribution to a field of study that is just now reaching maturation.”
—Nancy Pedri, Memorial University of Newfoundland
About The Author
Monica Chiu
Monica Chiu is Professor of English and American Studies at the University of New Hampshire. She is the editor of Drawing New Color Lines: Transnational Asian American Graphic Narratives.
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