Jewish Comics and Graphic Narratives: A Critical Guide

A comprehensive guide to Jewish comics and graphic narratives, exploring their history, impact, key critical issues, and seminal texts. It covers topics such as the genre's relationship to superheroes, Underground Comix, and Jewish literature, as well as social and cultural discussions surrounding graphic representation as sites of trauma, gender, mixed-media, and the Holocaust. The book also includes critical explorations of graphic narratives about Israel, the diasporic experience, Judaism, and autobiography and memoir, and features the works of Will Eisner, Ilana Zeffren, James Sturm, Joann Sfar, JT Waldman, Michel Kichka, Sarah Glidden, Rutu Modan, and Art Spiegelman.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 208 pages
Publication date: 15 December 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

The most comprehensive and up-to-date critical guide to the history, impact, key critical issues, and seminal texts of the genre, Jewish Comics and Graphic Narratives, delves into the defining characteristics of Jewish graphic narratives and explores their diverse facets to provide readers with a comprehensive understanding of the richness and complexity of Jewish graphic storytelling. Written in an accessible yet comprehensive and easy-to-navigate format, the book covers a wide range of topics, including:-

The history of the genre in the US and Israel, its relationship to superheroes, Underground Comix, and Jewish literature.

Social and cultural discussions surrounding the legitimization of graphic representation as sites of trauma, understandings of gender, mixed-media in Jewish graphic novels, and the study of these works in the classroom.

Critical explorations of graphic narratives about the Holocaust, Israel, the diasporic experience, Judaism, and autobiography and memoir.

The works of renowned artists such as Will Eisner, Ilana Zeffren, James Sturm, Joann Sfar, JT Waldman, Michel Kichka, Sarah Glidden, Rutu Modan, and Art Spiegelman, as well as notable narratives such as X Men, Anne Franks Diary, and Maus.

Jewish Comics and Graphic Novels also includes an appendix of relevant works sorted by genre, a glossary of crucial critical terms, and close readings of key texts to assist students and readers in developing their understanding of the genre and pursuing independent study.

Weight: 332g
Dimension: 156 x 235 x 14 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781350301580