Matt Reingold

Jewish Comics and Graphic Narratives (eBook, PDF)

A Critical Guide

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The most up-to-date critical guide mapping the history, impact, key critical issues, and seminal texts of the genre, Jewish Comics and Graphic Narratives interrogates what makes a work a "Jewish graphic narrative", and explores the form's diverse facets to orient readers to the richness and complexity of Jewish graphic storytelling.

Accessible but comprehensive and in an easy-to-navigate format, the book covers such topics as:

- The history of the genre in the US and Israel - and its relationship to superheroes, Underground Comix, and Jewish literature
- Social and cultural discussions surrounding the legitimization of graphic representation as sites of trauma, understandings of gender, mixed-media in Jewish graphic novels, and the study of these works in the classroom
- Critical explorations of graphic narratives about the Holocaust, Israel, the diasporic experience, Judaism, and autobiography and memoir
- The works of Will Eisner, Ilana Zeffren, James Sturm, Joann Sfar, JT Waldman, Michel Kichka, Sarah Glidden, Rutu Modan, and Art Spiegelman and such narratives as X Men, Anne Frank's Diary, and Maus

Jewish Comics and Graphic Novels includes an appendix of relevant works sorted by genre, a glossary of crucial critical terms, and close readings of key texts to help students and readers develop their understanding of the genre and pursue independent study.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. November 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350301597
• Artikelnr.: 65973597

Autorenporträt

Matt Reingold teaches at TanenbaumCHAT, Canada, where he also serves as the co-head of the Jewish History department. He is the author of Gender and Sexuality in Israeli Graphic Novels: Contested Masculinity and Independent Femininity (2021) and Reenivisioning Israel through Political Cartoons: Visual Discourses During the 2018-2021 Electoral Crisis (2022).

Inhaltsangabe

Series Editor Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Jewish Literature in the 21st century
Graphic novels as a medium
Defining Jewish graphic novels
Literature review of scholarly research about Jewish graphic novels[LB1]
Book overview
Historical Overview
Jewish comic-book writers and illustrators in the superhero era
Jewish content in superhero comic-books
Jewish superheroes
Underground comix, Will Eisner, and Art Spiegelman
Jewish graphic novels go mainstream: America
Jewish graphic novels go mainstream: Israel
Social and Cultural Impact
Legitimizing graphic representation of sites of trauma
Shifting understandings of gender by challenging hegemonies
Mixed-media in Jewish graphic novels
Jewish graphic novels and classroom instruction
Critical uses
Graphic novels about the Holocaust
Graphic novels about Israel
Graphic novels about the diasporic Jewish experience
Religious graphic novels
Autobiography
Key Texts
Holocaust graphic novels
X-Men: Magneto Testament - Greg Pak and Carmine di Giandomenico
The Diary of Anne Frank - Ari Folman and David Polonsky
Graphic novels about Israel
Pink Story - Ilana Zeffren
The Property - Rutu Modan
Graphic novels about the diaspora experience
Market Day - James Sturm
The Rabbi's Cat - Joann Sfar
Religious graphic novels
Megillat Esther - JT Waldman
Hereville - Barry Deutsch
Autobiography and Memoir
How to Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less - Sarah Glidden
Michel Kichka - Second Generation: Things I Didn't Tell My Father
Appendix
List of Jewish graphic novels sorted by genre
Glossary
Index