Visualizing Jewish Narrative

Derek Parker Royal

ISBN 10: 1474248799 / ISBN 13: 9781474248792

Published by Bloomsbury Academic Jun 2016, 2016

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Visualizing Jewish Narrative
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic Jun 2016
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1474248799
• ISBN 13: 9781474248792
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 244W x 161H x 22D millimeters 244 millimeters width by 161 millimeters height by 22 millimeters depth
• Weight: 582 grams

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Synopsis

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..

About the Author

Derek Parker Royal is Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at Johnson C. Smith University, USA and producer of The Comics Alternative podcast. He is the General Editor of the Bloomsbury Comics Studies Series, and his books include Visualizing Jewish Narrative: Jewish Comics and Graphic Novels (Bloomsbury Academic, 2016), Unfinalized Moments: Essays in the De elopement of Contemporary Jewish American Narrative (2012), and the forthcoming The Hernandez Brothers: Conversations.

Derek Parker Royal is Assistant Professor of English at Texas A&M University, Commerce. He has written numerous articles and book chapters on Roth and other topics, and he is the founder and president of the Philip Roth Society.