"How Come Boys Get to Keep Their Noses?" : Women and Jewish American Identity in Contemporary Graphic Memoirs / Tahneer Oksman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Oksman, Tahneer, Author.

Series:

Gender and culture.

Gender and Culture Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Graphic novels--History and criticism.

Graphic novels.

Jewish women in literature.

Autobiography in literature.

Jews--United States--Identity.

Jews.

American literature--Women authors--History and criticism.

American literature.

Comic books, strips, etc--History and criticism.

Comic books, strips, etc.

Women in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 274 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2016]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. “My Independent Jewish Monster Temperament”

2. “What Would Make Me the Most ‘Myself’”

3. “I Always Want to Know Everything True”

4. “But you don’t live here, so what’s the dilemma?”

Conclusion—“Where are they now?”

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jun 2020)

ISBN:

9780231540780

0231540787

OCLC:

936117722