Visualizing Jewish Narratives
Jewish Comics and Graphic Novels
Published on 30. June 2016
Book
Hardback
312 pages
978-1-4742-4879-2 (ISBN)
Description
Examining a wide range of comics and graphic novels - including works by creators such as Will Eisner, Leela Corman, Neil Gaiman, Art Spiegelman, Sarah Glidden and Joe Sacco - this book explores how comics writers and artists have tackled major issues of Jewish identity and culture. With chapters written by leading and emerging scholars in contemporary comic book studies, Visualizing Jewish Narrative highlights the ways in which Jewish comics have handled such topics as:
?Biography, autobiography, and Jewish identity
?Gender and sexuality
?Genre - from superheroes to comedy
?The Holocaust
?The Israel-Palestine conflict
?Sources in the Hebrew Bible and Jewish myth
Visualizing Jewish Narrative also includes a foreword by Danny Fingeroth, former editor of the Spider-Man line and author of Superman on the Couch and Disguised as Clark Kent..
?Biography, autobiography, and Jewish identity
?Gender and sexuality
?Genre - from superheroes to comedy
?The Holocaust
?The Israel-Palestine conflict
?Sources in the Hebrew Bible and Jewish myth
Visualizing Jewish Narrative also includes a foreword by Danny Fingeroth, former editor of the Spider-Man line and author of Superman on the Couch and Disguised as Clark Kent..
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
47 b/w illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
574 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4742-4879-2 (9781474248792)
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E-Book
06/2016
1st Edition
Bloomsbury Academic
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Person
Derek Parker Royal is a Clinical Associate Professor in the School of Arts, Technology, and Emerging Communication at the University of Texas at Dallas, USA, and he is the founder and former Executive Editor of Philip Roth Studies. He is also the cofounder, cohost, and producer of The Comics Alternative, a podcast network bridging scholarly inquiry with comics fandom.
Content
Contributors
Acknowledgements
Foreword
Danny Fingeroth
Introduction: Visualizing Jewish Narrative
Derek Parker Royal
Part 1: Picturing Jewish Identity
1. Thinly Disguised (Autobio)Graphical Stories: Will Eisner's Life, In Pictures
Lan Dong
2. "Not a Word for Little Girls!": Knowledge, Word, and Image in Leela Corman's Unterzakhn
Tahneer Oksman
3. Jewish Sexualities in J.T. Waldman's Megillat Esther
Matt Reingold
4. "You Wouldn't Shoot Your Fellow Jews": Jewish Identity & Nostalgia in Joann Sfar's Klezmer,
Nicole Wilkes Goldberg and James Goldberg
5. Feiffer's Jewish Voice
Ira B. Nadel
6. There Goes the Neighbourhookd: Cycling Ethnoracial Tensions in Will Eisner's Dropsie Avenue
Derek Parker Royal
Part 2: Jewish Engagements With Comic Genres
7. Marvel Comics and the Golem Legend
Robert G. Weiner
8. "America Makes Strange Jews": Superheroes and Jewish Masculinity in Howard Chaykin's Dominic Fortune
Brannon Costello
9. Converting Schmaltz Into Chicken Fat: Will Elder and the Judaization of American Comedy,
Daniel Bronstein
10. The Third Temple: Alternative Realities' Depiction of Israel in Israeli Comics and What it Tells Us About Political Consensus in Israeli Society
Ofer Bernstein
Part 3: Jewish Comics, The Holocaust, and Trauma
11. The Search: A Graphic Narrative for Beginning to Teach About the Holocaust
Wendy Stallard Flory
12.Picturing "The Holiest Thing": Joe Kubert's Children of the Warsaw Ghetto
Samantha Baskind
13. Trauma in Gaza: Israeli Image Through the Eye of the Graphic Novelist
Ellen Rosner Feig
14. "To Night the Ensilenced World": The Challenges of Intervocal Representation in Second-Generation Narratives of Witnessing
Jean-Philippe Marcoux
Part 4: Reperesentations of Israel, Biblical Text, and Legend
15. The Art of Persuasion and Propaganda: The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict in Comic Books and Graphic Novels
Catherine Michel
16. Strange Encounters in Rutu Modan's Exit Wounds and "Jamilti"
Stephen E. Tabachnick
17. The "Outsider": Neil Gaiman and the Old Testament
Cyril Camus
18. Jewish Giants: Nephilim, Rephaim and the IDF
Tof Eklund
Afterword
Arie Kaplan
Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Foreword
Danny Fingeroth
Introduction: Visualizing Jewish Narrative
Derek Parker Royal
Part 1: Picturing Jewish Identity
1. Thinly Disguised (Autobio)Graphical Stories: Will Eisner's Life, In Pictures
Lan Dong
2. "Not a Word for Little Girls!": Knowledge, Word, and Image in Leela Corman's Unterzakhn
Tahneer Oksman
3. Jewish Sexualities in J.T. Waldman's Megillat Esther
Matt Reingold
4. "You Wouldn't Shoot Your Fellow Jews": Jewish Identity & Nostalgia in Joann Sfar's Klezmer,
Nicole Wilkes Goldberg and James Goldberg
5. Feiffer's Jewish Voice
Ira B. Nadel
6. There Goes the Neighbourhookd: Cycling Ethnoracial Tensions in Will Eisner's Dropsie Avenue
Derek Parker Royal
Part 2: Jewish Engagements With Comic Genres
7. Marvel Comics and the Golem Legend
Robert G. Weiner
8. "America Makes Strange Jews": Superheroes and Jewish Masculinity in Howard Chaykin's Dominic Fortune
Brannon Costello
9. Converting Schmaltz Into Chicken Fat: Will Elder and the Judaization of American Comedy,
Daniel Bronstein
10. The Third Temple: Alternative Realities' Depiction of Israel in Israeli Comics and What it Tells Us About Political Consensus in Israeli Society
Ofer Bernstein
Part 3: Jewish Comics, The Holocaust, and Trauma
11. The Search: A Graphic Narrative for Beginning to Teach About the Holocaust
Wendy Stallard Flory
12.Picturing "The Holiest Thing": Joe Kubert's Children of the Warsaw Ghetto
Samantha Baskind
13. Trauma in Gaza: Israeli Image Through the Eye of the Graphic Novelist
Ellen Rosner Feig
14. "To Night the Ensilenced World": The Challenges of Intervocal Representation in Second-Generation Narratives of Witnessing
Jean-Philippe Marcoux
Part 4: Reperesentations of Israel, Biblical Text, and Legend
15. The Art of Persuasion and Propaganda: The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict in Comic Books and Graphic Novels
Catherine Michel
16. Strange Encounters in Rutu Modan's Exit Wounds and "Jamilti"
Stephen E. Tabachnick
17. The "Outsider": Neil Gaiman and the Old Testament
Cyril Camus
18. Jewish Giants: Nephilim, Rephaim and the IDF
Tof Eklund
Afterword
Arie Kaplan
Bibliography