Visualizing Jewish Narrative Jewish Comics and Graphic Novels [Hardcover]

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 Narrativehighlights 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 Narrativealso includes a foreword by Danny Fingeroth, former editor of theSpider-Manline and author ofSuperman on the CouchandDisguised as Clark Kent..

Derek Parker Royalis 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 ofPhilip Roth Studies. He is also the cofounder, cohost, and producer ofThe Comics Alternative, a podcast network bridging scholarly inquiry with comics fandom.

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'sLife, In Pictures
Lan Dong

2. Not a Word for Little Girls!: Knowledge, Word, and Image in Leela Corman'sUnterzakhn
Tahneer Oksman

3. Jewish Sexualities in J.T. Waldman'sMegillat Esther
Matt Reingold

4. You Wouldn't Shoot Your Fellow Jews: Jewish Identity & Nostalgia in Joann Sfar'sKlezmer,
Nicole Wilkes Goldlãb