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"How Come Boys Get to Keep Their Noses?"

Author : Tahneer Oksman
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231540787
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book "How Come Boys Get to Keep Their Noses?" written by Tahneer Oksman and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2016-02-16 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American comics reflect the distinct sensibilities and experiences of the Jewish American men who played an outsized role in creating them, but what about the contributions of Jewish women? Focusing on the visionary work of seven contemporary female Jewish cartoonists, Tahneer Oksman draws a remarkable connection between innovations in modes of graphic storytelling and the unstable, contradictory, and ambiguous figurations of the Jewish self in the postmodern era. Oksman isolates the dynamic Jewishness that connects each frame in the autobiographical comics of Aline Kominsky Crumb, Vanessa Davis, Miss Lasko-Gross, Lauren Weinstein, Sarah Glidden, Miriam Libicki, and Liana Finck. Rooted in a conception of identity based as much on rebellion as identification and belonging, these artists' representations of Jewishness take shape in the spaces between how we see ourselves and how others see us. They experiment with different representations and affiliations without forgetting that identity ties the self to others. Stemming from Kominsky Crumb's iconic 1989 comic "Nose Job," in which her alter ego refuses to assimilate through cosmetic surgery, Oksman's study is an arresting exploration of invention in the face of the pressure to disappear.

Passing Fancies in Jewish American Literature and Culture

Author : Judith Ruderman
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253036976
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Passing Fancies in Jewish American Literature and Culture written by Judith Ruderman and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-09 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scholarly study explores the conflicting forces of assimilation and cultural heritage in literary portrayals of Jewish American identity. In Passing Fancies in Jewish American Literature and Culture Judith Ruderman takes on the fraught question of who passes for Jewish in American literature and culture. In today’s contemporary political climate, religious and racial identities are being reconceived as responses to culture and environment, rather than essential qualities. Many Jews continue to hold conflicting ideas about their identity?seeking deep engagement with Jewish history and the experiences of the Jewish people while holding steadfastly to the understanding that identity is fluid and multivalent. Looking at carefully chosen texts from American literature, Ruderman elaborates on the strategies Jews have used to “pass” from the late nineteenth century to the present?nose jobs, renaming, clothing changes, religious and racial reclassification, and even playing baseball. While traversing racial and religious identities has always been a feature of America’s nation of immigrants, Ruderman shows how the complexities of identity formation and deformation are critically relevant during this important cultural moment.

Passing Illusions

Author : Kerry Wallach
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472053574
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book Passing Illusions written by Kerry Wallach and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2017-08-22 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Weimar Germany (1919–33) was an era of equal rights for women and minorities, but also of growing antisemitism and hostility toward the Jewish population. This led some Jews to want to pass or be perceived as non-Jews; yet there were still occasions when it was beneficial to be openly Jewish. Being visible as a Jew often involved appearing simultaneously non-Jewish and Jewish. Passing Illusions examines the constructs of German-Jewish visibility during the Weimar Republic and explores the controversial aspects of this identity—and the complex reasons many decided to conceal or reveal themselves as Jewish. Focusing on racial stereotypes, Kerry Wallach outlines the key elements of visibility, invisibility, and the ways Jewishness was detected and presented through a broad selection of historical sources including periodicals, personal memoirs, and archival documents, as well as cultural texts including works of fiction, anecdotes, images, advertisements, performances, and films. Twenty black-and-white illustrations (photographs, works of art, cartoons, advertisements, film stills) complement the book’s analysis of visual culture.

Spaces Between

Author : Nina Eckhoff-Heindl
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3658301163
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (583 download)

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Download or read book Spaces Between written by Nina Eckhoff-Heindl and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-07-16 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributions gathered in this volume exhibit a great variety of interdisciplinary perspectives on and theoretical approaches to the notion of ‘spaces between’. They draw our attention to the nexus between the medium of comics and the categories of difference as well as identity such as gender, dis/ability, age, and ethnicity, in order to open and intensify an interdisciplinary conversation between comics studies and intersectional identity studies.

Re-Constructing the Man of Steel

Author : Martin Lund
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319429604
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (194 download)

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Download or read book Re-Constructing the Man of Steel written by Martin Lund and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-11-17 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Martin Lund challenges contemporary claims about the original Superman’s supposed Jewishness and offers a critical re-reading of the earliest Superman comics. Engaging in critical dialogue with extant writing on the subject, Lund argues that much of recent popular and scholarly writing on Superman as a Jewish character is a product of the ethnic revival, rather than critical investigations of the past, and as such does not stand up to historical scrutiny. In place of these readings, this book offers a new understanding of the Superman created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster in the mid-1930s, presenting him as an authentically Jewish American character in his own time, for good and ill. On the way to this conclusion, this book questions many popular claims about Superman, including that he is a golem, a Moses-figure, or has a Hebrew name. In place of such notions, Lund offers contextual readings of Superman as he first appeared, touching on, among other ideas, Jewish American affinities with the Roosevelt White House, the whitening effects of popular culture, Jewish gender stereotypes, and the struggles faced by Jewish Americans during the historical peak of American anti-Semitism. In this book, Lund makes a call to stem the diffusion of myth into accepted truth, stressing the importance of contextualizing the Jewish heritage of the creators of Superman. By critically taking into account historical understandings of Jewishness and the comics’ creative contexts, this book challenges reigning assumptions about Superman and other superheroes’ cultural roles, not only for the benefit of Jewish studies, but for American, Cultural, and Comics studies as a whole.

Matrilineal Dissent

Author : Annie Atura Bushnell
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 0814349846
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (143 download)

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Download or read book Matrilineal Dissent written by Annie Atura Bushnell and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2024-05-07 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Redefining Jewish American literature through expansive feminist frameworks.

The Comics of Julie Doucet and Gabrielle Bell

Author : Tahneer Oksman
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496820584
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (968 download)

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Book Synopsis The Comics of Julie Doucet and Gabrielle Bell by : Tahneer Oksman

Download or read book The Comics of Julie Doucet and Gabrielle Bell written by Tahneer Oksman and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributions by Kylie Cardell, Aaron Cometbus, Margaret Galvan, Sarah Hildebrand, Frederik Byrn Køhlert, Tahneer Oksman, Seamus O'Malley, Annie Mok, Dan Nadel, Natalie Pendergast, Sarah Richardson, Jessica Stark, and James Yeh In a self-reflexive way, Julie Doucet's and Gabrielle Bell's comics, though often autobiographical, defy easy categorization. In this volume, editors Tahneer Oksman and Seamus O'Malley regard Doucet's and Bell's art as actively feminist, not only because they offer women's perspectives, but because they do so by provocatively bringing up the complicated, multivalent frameworks of such engagements. While each artist has a unique perspective, style, and worldview, the essays in this book investigate their shared investments in formal innovation and experimentation, and in playing with questions of the autobiographical, the fantastic, and the spaces in between. Doucet is a Canadian underground cartoonist, known for her autobiographical works such as Dirty Plotte and My New York Diary. Meanwhile, Bell is a British American cartoonist best known for her intensely introspective semiautobiographical comics and graphic memoirs, such as the Lucky series and Cecil and Jordan in New York. By pairing Doucet alongside Bell, the book recognizes the significance of female networks, and the social and cultural connections, associations, and conditions that shape every work of art. In addition to original essays, this volume republishes interviews with the artists. By reading Doucet's and Bell's comics together in this volume housed in a series devoted to single-creator studies, the book shows how despite the importance of finding "a place inside yourself" to create, this space seems always for better or worse a shared space culled from and subject to surrounding lives, experiences, and subjectivities.

The Object of Jewish Literature

Author : Barbara E. Mann
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300234112
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book The Object of Jewish Literature written by Barbara E. Mann and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2022-07-26 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of modern Jewish literature that explores our enduring attachment to the book as an object With the rise of digital media, the "death of the book” has been widely discussed. But the physical object of the book persists. Here, through the lens of materiality and objects, Barbara E. Mann tells a history of modern Jewish literature, from novels and poetry to graphic novels and artists’ books. Bringing contemporary work on secularism and design in conversation with literary history, she offers a new and distinctive frame for understanding how literary genres emerge. The long twentieth century, a period of tremendous physical upheaval and geographic movement, witnessed the production of a multilingual canon of writing by Jewish authors. Literature’s objecthood is felt not only in the physical qualities of books—bindings, covers, typography, illustrations—but also through the ways in which materiality itself became a practical foundation for literary expression.

American Jewish Year Book 2016

Author : Arnold Dashefsky
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319461222
Total Pages : 824 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (194 download)

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Download or read book American Jewish Year Book 2016 written by Arnold Dashefsky and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-02-20 with total page 824 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American Jewish Year Book, now in its 116th year, is the annual record of the North American Jewish communities and provides insight into their major trends. Part I presents a forum on the Pew Survey, “A Portrait of American Orthodox Jews.” Part II begins with Chapter 13, "The Jewish Family." Chapter 14 examines “American Jews and the International Arena (April 1, 2015 – April 15, 2016), which focuses on US–Israel Relations. Chapters 15-17 analyze the demography and geography of the US, Canadian, and world Jewish populations. In Part III, Chapter 18 provides lists of Jewish institutions, including federations, community centers, social service agencies, national organizations, synagogues, Hillels, day schools, camps, museums, and Israeli consulates. In the final chapters, Chapter 19 presents national and local Jewish periodicals and broadcast media; Chapter 20 provides academic resources, including Jewish Studies programs, books, articles, websites, and research libraries; and Chapter 21 presents lists of major events in the past year, Jewish honorees, and obituaries. An invaluable record of Jewish life, the American Jewish Year Book illuminates contemporary issues with insight and breadth. It is a window into a complex and ever-changing world. Deborah Dash Moore, Frederick G. L. Huetwell Professor of History and Judaic Studies, and Director Emerita of the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies, University of Michigan A century from now and more, the stately volumes of the American Jewish Year Book will stand as the authoritative record of Jewish life since 1900. For anyone interested in tracing the long-term evolution of Jewish social, political, religious, and cultural trends from an objective yet passionately Jewish perspective, there simply is no substitute. Lawrence Grossman, American Jewish Year Book Editor (1999-2008) and Contributor (1988-2015)

Comics, Trauma, and the New Art of War

Author : Harriet E. H. Earle
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496812492
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (968 download)

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Download or read book Comics, Trauma, and the New Art of War written by Harriet E. H. Earle and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2017-06-19 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conflict and trauma remain among the most prevalent themes in film and literature. Comics has never avoided such narratives, and comics artists are writing them in ways that are both different from and complementary to literature and film. In Comics, Trauma, and the New Art of War, Harriet E. H. Earle brings together two distinct areas of research--trauma studies and comics studies--to provide a new interpretation of a long-standing theme. Focusing on representations of conflict in American comics after the Vietnam War, Earle claims that the comics form is uniquely able to show traumatic experience by representing events as viscerally as possible. Using texts from across the form and placing mainstream superhero comics alongside alternative and art comics, Earle suggests that comics are the ideal artistic representation of trauma. Because comics bridge the gap between the visual and the written, they represent such complicated narratives as loss and trauma in unique ways, particularly through the manipulation of time and experience. Comics can fold time and confront traumatic events, be they personal or shared, through a myriad of both literary and visual devices. As a result, comics can represent trauma in ways that are unavailable to other narrative and artistic forms. With themes such as dreams and mourning, Earle concentrates on trauma in American comics after the Vietnam War. Examples include Alissa Torres's American Widow, Doug Murray's The "Nam, and Art Spiegelman's much-lauded Maus. These works pair with ideas from a wide range of thinkers, including Sigmund Freud, Mikhail Bakhtin, and Fredric Jameson, as well as contemporary trauma theory and clinical psychology. Through these examples and others, Comics, Trauma, and the New Art of War proves that comics open up new avenues to explore personal and public trauma in extraordinary, necessary ways.

Distinctive Styles and Authorship in Alternative Comics

Author : Lukas Etter
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110693682
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Distinctive Styles and Authorship in Alternative Comics written by Lukas Etter and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-12-16 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Distinctive Styles and Authorship in Alternative Comics addresses the benefits and limits of analyses of style in alternative comics. It offers three close readings of works serially published between 1980 and 2018 – Art Spiegelman’s Maus, Alison Bechdel’s Dykes to Watch Out For, and Jason Lutes’ Berlin – and discusses how artistic style may influence the ways in which readers construct authorship.

Keywords for Comics Studies

Author : Ramzi Fawaz
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479831964
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (798 download)

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Download or read book Keywords for Comics Studies written by Ramzi Fawaz and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Across more than fifty essays, Keywords for Comics Studies provides a rich, interdisciplinary vocabulary for comics and sequential art, and identifies new avenues of research into one of the most popular and diverse visual media of the twentieth and twenty-first century. In an original twist on the NYU Keywords mission, the terms in this volume combine attention to the unique aesthetic practices of a distinct medium, comics, with some of the most fundamental concepts of the humanities broadly. Readers will see how scholars, cultural critics, and comics artists from a range of fields-including media and film studies, queer and feminist theory, and critical race and transgender studies among others-take up sequential art as both an object of analysis and a medium for developing new theories about embodiment, identity, literacy, audience reception, genre, cultural politics and more. To do so, Keywords for Comics Studies presents an array of original and inventive analyses of terms central to the study of comics and sequential art, but traditionally siloed in distinct lexicons: these include creative or aesthetic terms like Ink, Creator, Border, and Panel; conceptual terms like trans*, disability, universe, and fantasy; genre terms, like Zine, Pornography, Superhero, and Manga; and canonical terms like X-Men, Archie, Watchmen and Love and Rockets. Written as much for students and lay readers as professors and experts in the field, Keywords for Comics Studies revivifies the fantasy and magic of reading comics in its kaleidoscopic view of the field's most compelling and imaginative ideas."--

Emerging Trends in Third-generation Holocaust Literature

Author : Alan L. Berger
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1666932523
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (669 download)

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Download or read book Emerging Trends in Third-generation Holocaust Literature written by Alan L. Berger and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This anthology offers fresh approaches to understanding how grandchildren of Holocaust survivors and perpetrators treat their traumatic legacies"--

Why Does That Man Have Such a Big Nose?

Author : Mary Beth Quinsey
Publisher : Parenting Press, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780943990248
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Why Does That Man Have Such a Big Nose? written by Mary Beth Quinsey and published by Parenting Press, Inc.. This book was released on 1986 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Facts about human anatomy in question-and-answer format. This book helps children learn about differences in people without involving value judgements.

INTERGALACTIC ENTERPRISE: 60+ Space Sci-Fi Novels in One Edition

Author : Jules Verne
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 6645 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book INTERGALACTIC ENTERPRISE: 60+ Space Sci-Fi Novels in One Edition written by Jules Verne and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-12-16 with total page 6645 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This meticulously edited Sci-Fi Collection is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: Jules Verne: From the Earth to the Moon Around the Moon Off on a Comet H. G. Wells: The War of the Worlds Percy Greg: Across the Zodiac Gustavus W. Pope: Journey to Mars Journey to Venus David Lindsay: A Voyage to Arcturus Edward Everett Hale: The Brick Moon Stanley G. Weinbaum: A Martian Odyssey Valley of Dreams H. Beam Piper: The Terro-Human Future History Series: Uller Uprising Four-Day Planet The Cosmic Computer Space Viking The Return Omnilingual The Edge of the Knife The Keeper Graveyard of Dreams Ministry of Disturbance Oomphel in the Sky A Slave is a Slave Naudsonce Little Fuzzy Philip K. Dick: Second Variety The Variable Man Adjustment Team The Hanging Stranger The Eyes Have It The Skull Mr. Spaceship E. E. "Doc" Smith: Triplanetary First Lensman Galactic Patrol Second Stage Lensmen The Vortex Blaster or, Masters of the Vortex The Skylark of Space Skylark Three Spacehounds of IPC The Galaxy Primes Subspace Survivors Imperial Stars Masters of Space Murray Leinster: Murder Madness The Wailing Asteroid The Forgotten Planet Creatures of the Abyss Operation Terror The Pirates of Ersatz The Fifth-Dimension Catapult The Fifth-Dimension Tube (Sequel) Fritz Leiber: The Big Time The Creature from Cleveland Depths The Night of the Long Knives A Hitch in Space A Pail of Air The Moon is Green Richard Stockham: Perchance to Dream Irving E. Cox: The Guardians Frederik Pohl: Search the Sky Edwin Lester Arnold: Gulliver of Mars John Jacob Astor: A Journey to Other Worlds

The Good Old Boys and The Smiling Country

Author : Elmer Kelton
Publisher : Forge Books
ISBN 13 : 0765394022
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (653 download)

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Download or read book The Good Old Boys and The Smiling Country written by Elmer Kelton and published by Forge Books. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Good Old Boys and The Smiling Country pairs two wonderful novels by one of the most honored of all western writers, Elmer Kelton The Good Old Boys Hewey Calloway has a problem. He wants to be a footloose cowboy, endlessly wandering the land on horseback, but the open range of his childhood is slowly disappearing. Land is being parceled out, barbed-wire fences are springing up all over, and cars are replacing the horse as a mode of transportation. Swimming against the tide of “progress,” Hewey begins to understand that the time of the cowboy is over, that the life he dreams of has become part of the past. He must find a new path to happiness—one that may require a great sacrifice. The Smiling Country It is now 1910 and Hewey Calloway’s freewheeling life is coming to an end—the fences, trucks, and automobiles he hates are even creeping in to remote Alpine in the “smiling country” of West Texas. When he is badly injured trying to break a renegade horse, Hewey’s regrets over his lost love, schoolteacher Spring Renfro haunt him as he sees the loneliness that awaits him. The Smiling Country is filled with humor, love, and the lore of the cowboy life at a time when the great, free, open ranges of the West were adjusting to a new, technological era. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

The Lensman Series

Author : E. E. Smith
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1752 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book The Lensman Series written by E. E. Smith and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-11-18 with total page 1752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Triplanetary - Arisians, the alien race is breeding two genetic lines to become the ultimate weapon in Arisia's cosmic war with their arch-enemies, the Eddorians... First Lensman - The novel chronicles the founding of the Galactic Patrol by Virgil Samms, the first sentient being in our cosmos to wear the "Lens", a unique badge of authority which is actually a form of "pseudo-life" that grants telepathic powers to the defenders of Civilization... Galactic Patrol - Kinnison and Clarissa MacDougall are the penultimates of the human breeding program the Arisians had set up many eons earlier... Second Stage Lensmen - The four superior Lensmen: Kinnison, Worsel, Tregonsee, and Nadreck, are armed with mental powers allowing them to control the minds of others and see, hear, and feel without using their physical senses (the "sense of perception")... The Vortex Blaster or, Masters of the Vortex - Neal "Storm" Cloud is not a Lensman. Instead he is a nuclear engineer with an amazingly mathematical mind. He is a high level genius and a lightning calculator...