Jewish Comics and Graphic Narratives

Series Editor Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction
Jewish Literature in the 21st century
Graphic novels as a medium
Defining Jewish graphic novels
Literature review of scholarly research about Jewish graphic novels[LB1]
Book overview

Historical Overview
Jewish comic-book writers and illustrators in the superhero era
Jewish content in superhero comic-books
Jewish superheroes
Underground comix, Will Eisner, and Art Spiegelman
Jewish graphic novels go mainstream: America
Jewish graphic novels go mainstream: Israel

Social and Cultural Impact
Legitimizing graphic representation of sites of trauma
Shifting understandings of gender by challenging hegemonies
Mixed-media in Jewish graphic novels
Jewish graphic novels and classroom instruction

Critical uses
Graphic novels about the Holocaust
Graphic novels about Israel
Graphic novels about the diasporic Jewish experience
Religious graphic novels
Autobiography

Key Texts
Holocaust graphic novels
X-Men: Magneto Testament - Greg Pak and Carmine di Giandomenico
The Diary of Anne Frank - Ari Folman and David Polonsky
Graphic novels about Israel
Pink Story - Ilana Zeffren
The Property - Rutu Modan
Graphic novels about the diaspora experience
Market Day - James Sturm
The Rabbi's Cat - Joann Sfar
Religious graphic novels
Megillat Esther - JT Waldman
Hereville - Barry Deutsch
Autobiography and Memoir
How to Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less - Sarah Glidden
Michel Kichka - Second Generation: Things I Didn't Tell My Father

Appendix
List of Jewish graphic novels sorted by genre

Glossary

Index

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• Graphic novels: história e crítica
• Graphic novels: histórias verdadeiras e de não-ficção
• Estudos judaicos

Jewish Graphic Narratives; superheroes; autobiography; memoir; Holocaust studies; Jewish Studies; Israeli diaspora; Jewish Diaspora; truama; religion; Judaism; X-Men; Maus; Diary of Anne Frank; Will Eisner; Art Spiegelman