Visualizing Jewish Narrative Jewish Comics and Graphic Novels

by Royal, Derek Parker

• ISBN13: 9781474248792
• ISBN10: 1474248799
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2016-06-30
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

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..

Author Biography

Derek Parker Royal is Executive Editor of Philip Roth Studies, Editorial Director of the Brown Books Publishing Group and Editor and Producer of The Comics Alternative podcast. Editor of the forthcoming Wiley Companion to Comic Book Studies, he was previously Associate Professor of English at Texas A&M University, USA.

Table of Contents

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 (Assistant Professor of English, University of Illinois Springfield, USA)
2. "Not a Word for Little Girls!": Knowledge, Word, and Image in Leela Corman's Unterzakhn, Tahneer Oksman (Graduate Center, City University of New York, USA)
3. Jewish Sexualities in J.T. Waldman's Megillat Esther, Matt Reingold (York University, Canada)
4. "You Wouldn't Shoot Your Fellow Jews": Jewish Identity and Nostalgia in Joann Sfar's Klezmer, Nicole Wilkes Goldberg and James Goldberg (Brigham Young University, USA)
5. Jules Feiffer's Jewish Voice, Ira B. Nadel (Professor of English, University of British Columbia, Canada)
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 (Associate Humanities Librarian, Texas Tech University, USA)
8. "America Makes Strange Jews": Superheroes and Jewish Masculinity in Howard Chaykin's Dominic Fortune, Brannon Costello (Associate Professor of English, Louisiana State University, USA)
9. Converting Schmaltz Into Chicken Fat: Will Elder and the Judaization of American Comedy, Daniel Bronstein (Congregational Scholar, Congregation Beth Elohim, USA)
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 (University of Calgary, Canada)
Part 3: Jewish Comics, The Holocaust, and Trauma
11. The Search: A Graphic Narrative for Beginning to Teach About the Holocaust, Wendy Stallard Flory (Professor of English, Purdue University, USA)
12. Representing Resistance: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in American Comics, Samantha Baskin (Associate Professor of Art History, Cleveland State University, USA)
13. Trauma in Gaza: Israeli Image Through the Eye of the Graphic Novelist, Ellen Rosner Feig (Assistant Professor, Composition and Literature, Bergen Community College, USA)
14. "To Night the Ensilenced World": The Challenges of Intervocal Representation in Second-Generation Narratives of Witnessing, Jean-Philippe Marcoux (Professor of American Literature, Université Laval, Canada)
Part 4: Reperesentations of Israel, Biblical Text, and Legend
15. Insurmountable Barriers: The Palestinian-Israeli Conflict in Comic Books and Graphic Novels, Catherine Michel (Martin Luther University, Germany)
16. Personal Renewal in Rutu Modan's Exit Wounds and Jamilti, Stephen E. Tabachnick (Professor of English, University of Memphis, USA)
17. The "Outsider": Neil Gaiman and the Old Testament, Cyril Camus (University of Toulouse, France)
18. Jewish Giants: Nephilim, Rephaim and the IDF, Tof Eklund (Full Sail University, USA)
Afterword, Arie Kaplan
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