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9780813543673

The Jewish Graphic Novel

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  • ISBN13:

    9780813543673

  • ISBN10:

    0813543673

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2008-12-30
  • Publisher: Rutgers Univ Pr
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Summary

In the 1970s and 1980s Jewish cartoonists such as Will Eisner were some of the first artists to use the graphic novel as a way to explore their ethnicity. Although similar to their pop culture counterpart, the comic book, graphic novels presented weightier subject matter in more expensive packaging, which appealed to an adult audience and gained them credibility as a genre. The Jewish Graphic Novelis a lively, interdisciplinary collection of essays that addresses critically acclaimed works in this subgenre of Jewish literary and artistic culture. Featuring insightful discussions of notable figures in the industry-such as Will Eisner, Art Spiegelman, and Joann Sfar-the essays focus on the how graphic novels are increasingly being used in Holocaust memoir and fiction, and to portray Jewish identity in America and abroad. Featuring more than 85 illustrations, this collection is a compelling representation of a major postmodern ethnic and artistic achievement.

Table of Contents

Foreword: Comix, Judaism, and Me
Introduction
The Jewish. American Experience
Contemporary American Jewish Comic Books: Abject Pasts, Heroic Futuresp. 3
Comic Books, Tragic Stories: Will Eisner's American Jewish Historyp. 22
"Wanna watch the grown-ups doin' dirty things?": Jewish Sexuality and the Early Graphic Novelp. 43
"Give 'em another circumcision": Jewish Masculinities in The Golem's Mighty Swingp. 64
The Holocaust across Borders
A Tale of Two Mice: Graphic Representations of the Jew in Holocaust Narrativep. 85
"When time stands still": Traumatic Immediacy and Narrative Organization in Art Spiegelman's Maus and In the Shadow of No Towersp. 94
The Holocaust without Ink: Absent Memory and Atrocity in Joe Kubert's Graphic Novel Yossel: April 19, 1943p. 111
Releasing the Grip of the Ghostly: Bernice Eisenstein's I Was a Child of Holocaust Survivorsp. 129
Witness, Trauma, and Remembrance: Holocaust Representation and X-Men Comicsp. 144
The Graphic Novel outside the United States
Imperfect Masters: Rabbinic Authority in Joann Sfar's The Rabbi's Catp. 163
Borderlands: Places, Spaces, and Jewish Identity in Joann Sfar's The Rabbi's Cat and Klezmerp. 181
From Darkness into Light: Reframing Notions of Self and Other in Contemporary Israeli Graphic Narrativesp. 198
Ben Gurion's Golem and Jewish Lesbians: Subverting Hegemonic History in Two Israeli Graphic Novelsp. 214
Jewish Graphic Novelists in Their Own Words and Pictures
A Conversation with Miriam Katinp. 237
A Conversation with Miriam Libickip. 244
Jewish Memoir Goes Pow! Zap! Oy!p. 253
Further Readingp. 275
Notes on Contributorsp. 279
Indexp. 283
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