Visualizing Jewish Narratives

Derek Parker Royal is a Clinical Associate Professor in the School of Arts, Technology, and Emerging Communication at the University of Texas at Dallas, USA, and he is the founder and former Executive Editor of Philip Roth Studies. He is also the cofounder, cohost, and producer of The Comics Alternative, a podcast network bridging scholarly inquiry with comics fandom.

• ContributorsAcknowledgementsForewordDanny FingerothIntroduction: Visualizing Jewish Narrative Derek Parker Royal Part 1: Picturing Jewish Identity1. Thinly Disguised (Autobio)Graphical Stories: Will Eisner’s Life, In PicturesLan Dong 2. “Not a Word for Little Girls!”: Knowledge, Word, and Image in Leela Corman’s UnterzakhnTahneer Oksman 3. Jewish Sexualities in J.T. Waldman’s Megillat EstherMatt Reingold4. “You Wouldn’t Shoot Your Fellow Jews”: Jewish Identity & Nostalgia in Joann Sfar’s Klezmer, Nicole Wilkes Goldberg and James Goldberg5. Feiffer's Jewish VoiceIra B. Nadel6. There Goes the Neighbourhookd: Cycling Ethnoracial Tensions in Will Eisner’s Dropsie AvenueDerek Parker Royal Part 2: Jewish Engagements With Comic Genres7. Marvel Comics and the Golem LegendRobert G. Weiner8. “America Makes Strange Jews”: Superheroes and Jewish Masculinity in Howard Chaykin’s Dominic FortuneBrannon Costello9. Converting Schmaltz Into Chicken Fat: Will Elder and the Judaization of American Comedy, Daniel Bronstein10. The Third Temple: Alternative Realities’ Depiction of Israel in Israeli Comics and What it Tells Us About Political Consensus in Israeli Society Ofer Bernstein Part 3: Jewish Comics, The Holocaust, and Trauma11. The Search: A Graphic Narrative for Beginning to Teach About the HolocaustWendy Stallard Flory12.Picturing “The Holiest Thing”: Joe Kubert’s Children of the Warsaw GhettoSamantha Baskind 13. Trauma in Gaza: Israeli Image Through the Eye of the Graphic NovelistEllen Rosner Feig14. “To Night the Ensilenced World”: The Challenges of Intervocal Representation in Second-Generation Narratives of WitnessingJean-Philippe Marcoux Part 4: Reperesentations of Israel, Biblical Text, and Legend15. The Art of Persuasion and Propaganda: The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict in Comic Books and Graphic NovelsCatherine Michel16. Strange Encounters in Rutu Modan’s Exit Wounds and “Jamilti”Stephen E. Tabachnick17. The “Outsider”: Neil Gaiman and the Old Testament Cyril Camus18. Jewish Giants: Nephilim, Rephaim and the IDF Tof EklundAfterword Arie KaplanBibliography