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Shameful, Impure Art: Robert Crumb’s Autobiographical Comics and the Confessional Poets

2012; University of Hawaii Press; Volume: 35; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1353/bio.2012.0045

1529-1456

Edward A. Shannon,

Digital Storytelling and Education

Cartoonist Robert Crumb’s work echoes confessional poetry. Crumb, John Berryman, and Sylvia Plath metaphorically adopt the personae of oppressed minority figures. Along with this identification with the oppressed other, Crumb and Plath exhibit a curious and disquieting relationship with power and oppression