The Jewish graphic novel : critical approaches
An interdisciplinary collection of essays that addresses critically acclaimed works in Jewish graphic novel, a subgenre of Jewish literary and artistic culture. Featuring insightful discussions of notable figures, It focuses on how graphic novels are used in Holocaust memoir and fiction, and portrays Jewish identity in North America.
Print Book, English, 2010
Rutgers University Press ; Eurospan [distributor], New Brunswick, London, 2010
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xxvii, 292 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
9780813547756, 9780813543673, 081354775X, 0813543673
799981485
Foreword: Comix, Judaism, and Me / J.T. Waldman
Introduction / Samantha Baskind and Ranen Omer-Sherman
Contemporary American Jewish comic books: abject past, 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
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 Einstein's I was a Child of Holocaust Survivors / Miriam Harris
Witness, trauma, and remembrance: Holocaust representation and X-Men comics / Cheryl Alexander Malcolm
Imperfect masters: Rabbinic authority in Joann Sfar's The Rabbi's Cat / Paul Einstein
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
A conversation with Miriam Katin / Samantha Baskind
A conversation with Miriam Libicki / Ranen Omer-Sherman / Jewish memoir goes pow! zap! oy! / Miriam Libicki
Originally published: 2008