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How come boys get to keep their noses? : women and Jewish American identity in contemporary graphic memoirs /

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 remarka...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Oksman, Tahneer (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Columbia University Press, [2016]
Colección:Gender and culture.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: "To Unaffiliate Jewishly"
  • 1. "My Independent Jewish Monster Temperament": The Serial Selves of Aline Kominsky Crumb
  • 2. "What Would Make Me the Most 'Myself'": Self-Creation and Self-Exile in Vanessa Davis's Diary and Autobiographical Comics
  • 3. "I Always Want to Know Everything True": Memory, Adolescence, and Belonging in the Graphic Memoirs of Miss Lasko-Gross and Lauren Weinstein
  • 4. "But you don't live here, so what's the dilemma?": Birthright and Accountability in the Geographics of Sarah Glidden and Miriam Libicki
  • Conclusion--"Where are they now?": Translation and Renewal in Liana Finck's A Bintel Brief
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.