Chapter 1: Introduction, or Transformations and the Performance of Text and Image Part I: Mimesis Chapter 2: "Did You Kill Anyone?": The Pathography of PTSD in The White Donkey Chapter 3: I Don’t Have Any Ancestors, OK? Let’s Just Drop It: Miss America and (Pan)Latinx Representation in Marvel’s America Chapter 4: Space, Conflict and Memory in Shaft: A Complicated Man Chapter 5: Illustrating Mental Illness and Engaging Empathy Through Graphic Memoir Part II: Poiesis Chapter 6: Mapping the Nation and Reimagining Home in Vietnamese American Graphic Narratives Chapter 7: "Real Men Don’t Smash Little Girls": Inter-Hero Violence, Families, Masculinity, and Contemporary Superheroes Chapter 8: Graphic Performances in Octavia Butler’s Kindred Chapter 9: Austen’s Audience(s) and the Perils of Adaptation Part III: Kinesis Chapter 10: Graphical, Radical Women: Revising Boundaries, Re(Image)ining Ecriture Feminine in the Novels of Bechdel and Satrapi Chapter 11: Bridging the Gutter: Cultural Construction of Gender Sensitivity in Select Indian Graphic Narratives after Nirbhaya Chapter 12: "There Are No Monsters Like Us": Gothic Horror, Lesbianism, and the Female Body in Marguerite Bennett and Ariela Kristantina’s InSEXts Chapter 13: (De)Forging Canadian Identity in Michael DeForge's Sticks Angelica, Folk Hero Chapter 14: A Killer Rhetoric of Alternatives: Re/Framing Monstrosity in My Friend Dahmer Chapter 15: The Contextualization of the Palestinian Experience in Joe Sacco’s Comics Journalism