The Jewish Graphic Novel

Critical Approaches
Herausgeber: Baskind, Samantha; Omer-Sherman, Ranen

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In the 1970s and 1980s Jewish cartoonists such as Will Eisner were some of the first artists to use the graphic novel as a way to explore their ethnicity. Although similar to their pop culture counterpart, the comic book, graphic novels presented weightier subject matter in more expensive packaging, which appealed to an adult audience and gained them credibility as a genre. "The Jewish Graphic Novel" is a lively, interdisciplinary collection of essays that addresses critically acclaimed works in this subgenre of Jewish literary and artistic culture. Featuring insightful discussions of notable figures in the industry--such as Will Eisner, Art Spiegelman, and Joann Sfar--the essays focus on the how graphic novels are increasingly being used in Holocaust memoir and fiction, and to portray Jewish identity in America and abroad. Featuring more than 85 illustrations, this collection is a compelling representation of a major postmodern ethnic and artistic achievement.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• None edition
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Januar 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 172mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 683g
• ISBN-13: 9780813547756
• ISBN-10: 081354775X
• Artikelnr.: 28522300

Autorenporträt

Edited by Samantha Baskind and Ranen Omer-Sherman

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword: Comix, Judaism, and Me/ J. T. Waldman
Introduction / Samantha Baskind / Ranen Omer-Sherman
Part One. The Jewish American Experience Contemporary American Jewish Comic
Books: Abject Pasts, Heroic Futures / Laurence Roth
Comic Books, Tragic Stories: Will Eisner's American Jewish History / Jeremy
Dauber
``Wanna watch the grown-ups doin' dirty things?'': Jewish Sexuality and the
Early Graphic Novel / Josh Lambert
``Give `em another circumcision'': Jewish Masculinities in The Golem's
Mighty Swing / Roxanne Harde
Part Two. The Holocaust across Borders A Tale of Two Mice: Graphic
Representations of the Jew in Holocaust Narrative / Lisa Naomi Mulman
``When time stands still'': Traumatic Immediacy and Narrative Organization
in Art Spiegelman's Maus and In the Shadow of No Towers / Erin McGlothlin
The Holocaust without Ink: Absent Memory and Atrocity in Joe Kubert's
Graphic Novel Yossel: April 19, 1943 / Brad Prager
Releasing the Grip of the Ghostly: Bernice Eisenstein's I Was a Child of
Holocaust Survivors / Miriam Harris
Witness, Trauma, and Remembrance: Holocaust Representation and X-Men Comics
/ Cheryl Alexander Malcolm
Part Three. The Graphic Novel outside the United States Imperfect Masters:
Rabbinic Authority in Joann Sfar's The Rabbi's Cat / Paul Eisenstein
Borderlands: Places, Spaces, and Jewish Identity in Joann Sfar's The
Rabbi's Cat and Klezmer / Marla Harris
From Darkness into Light: Reframing Notions of Self and Other in
Contemporary Israeli Graphic Narratives / Ariel Kahn
Ben Gurion's Golem and Jewish Lesbians: Subverting Hegemonic History in Two
Israeli Graphic Novels / Alon Raab
Part Four. Jewish Graphic Novelists in Their Own Words and Pictures A
Conversation with Miriam Katin / Samantha Baskind
A Conversation with Miriam Libicki / Ranen Omer-Sherman
Jewish Memoir Goes Pow! Zap! Oy! / Miriam Libicki
Further Reading
Notes on Contributors
Index