Visualizing Jewish Narratives : Jewish Comics and Graphic Novels (Paperback)

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