Visualizing Jewish Narratives

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..

Contributors Acknowledgements ForewordDanny Fingeroth Introduction: Visualizing Jewish Narrative Derek Parker Royal Part 1: Picturing Jewish Identity1. Thinly Disguised (Autobio)Graphical Stories: Will Eisner's Life, In PicturesLan Dong 2. "Not a Word for Little Girls!": Knowledge, Word, and Image in Leela Corman's UnterzakhnTahneer Oksman 3. Jewish Sexualities in J.T. Waldman's Megillat EstherMatt Reingold 4. "You Wouldn't Shoot Your Fellow Jews": Jewish Identity & Nostalgia in Joann Sfar's Klezmer, Nicole Wilkes Goldberg and James Goldberg5. Feiffer's Jewish VoiceIra B. Nadel6. There Goes the Neighbourhookd: Cycling Ethnoracial Tensions in Will Eisner's Dropsie AvenueDerek Parker Royal Part 2: Jewish Engagements With Comic Genres7. Marvel Comics and the Golem LegendRobert G. Weiner8. "America Makes Strange Jews": Superheroes and Jewish Masculinity in Howard Chaykin's Dominic FortuneBrannon Costello9. Converting Schmaltz Into Chicken Fat: Will Elder and the Judaization of American Comedy, Daniel Bronstein10. 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 HolocaustWendy Stallard Flory12.Picturing "The Holiest Thing": Joe Kubert's Children of the Warsaw GhettoSamantha Baskind 13. Trauma in Gaza: Israeli Image Through the Eye of the Graphic NovelistEllen Rosner Feig14. "To Night the Ensilenced World": The Challenges of Intervocal Representation in Second-Generation Narratives of WitnessingJean-Philippe Marcoux Part 4: Reperesentations of Israel, Biblical Text, and Legend15. The Art of Persuasion and Propaganda: The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict in Comic Books and Graphic NovelsCatherine Michel16. Strange Encounters in Rutu Modan's Exit Wounds and "Jamilti"Stephen E. Tabachnick17. The "Outsider": Neil Gaiman and the Old Testament Cyril Camus18. Jewish Giants: Nephilim, Rephaim and the IDF Tof Eklund Afterword Arie Kaplan Bibliography