ISBN:
9781350301610
Language:
Undetermined
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource
Edition:
1st ed
Year of publication:
2022
Series Statement:
Bloomsbury Comics Studies
Keywords:
Comic books
;
Graphic novels Criticism
;
Jewish studies
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
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
DOI:
10.5040/9781350301610
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