Visualizing Jewish Narrative: Jewish Comics and Graphic Novels - Hardcover

Derek Parker Royal

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1474248799 ISBN 13: 9781474248792

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016

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 this title

About the Author

Derek Parker Royal is Executive Editor of Philip Roth Studies, Editorial Director of the Brown Books Publishing Group and Editor and Producer of The Comics Alternative podcast. Editor of the forthcoming Wiley Companion to Comic Book Studies, he was previously Associate Professor of English at Texas A&M University, USA.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1474248799
• ISBN 13: 9781474248792
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 320
• Editor: Derek Parker Royal