One of My Life Stories
Dec. 23rd, 2016 09:58 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rynlingYesterday afternoon, while driving down to Georgia, I finally found the entryway I needed for my book about women and comics. Instead of approaching the topic through its broader context of history or something resembling a literature review, I'm going to describe my process of writing the book as a personal narrative, with each chapter of the text approximating a chapter of my life. I know this sounds narcissistic – and it is! – but my project aims to draw connections that I don't think most people writing about popular culture have made yet, primarily because most people writing about popular culture don't have my generational experience.
How exactly did we get from Sailor Moon to Steven Universe? I know exactly how that story goes, because it's essentially the story of my life. Each chapter in the manuscript draws on a ton of research, but I want the introduction to be more personal; I want to engage the reader while showing her exactly how everything fits together within a lived experience.
It's a lovely 70° at 10:00 in the morning, which is perfect for taking a long walk and then sitting outside with some iced tea. The South may be a racist and homophobic dystopian hellhole, but at least the weather is nice.
How exactly did we get from Sailor Moon to Steven Universe? I know exactly how that story goes, because it's essentially the story of my life. Each chapter in the manuscript draws on a ton of research, but I want the introduction to be more personal; I want to engage the reader while showing her exactly how everything fits together within a lived experience.
It's a lovely 70° at 10:00 in the morning, which is perfect for taking a long walk and then sitting outside with some iced tea. The South may be a racist and homophobic dystopian hellhole, but at least the weather is nice.
