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"How Come Boys Get to Keep Their Noses?": Women and Jewish American Identity in Contemporary Graphic Memoirs
Contributor(s): Oksman, Tahneer (Author)

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ISBN: 0231172745     ISBN-13: 9780231172745
Publisher: Columbia University Press
OUR PRICE: $110.25  

Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: February 2016
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | Comics & Graphic Novels
- Literary Criticism | Feminist
- Literary Criticism | Jewish
Dewey: 741.597
LCCN: 2015017794
Age Level: 22-UP
Grade Level: 17-UP
Series: Gender and Culture
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 7" W x 10.1" L (1.60 lbs) 296 pages
Themes:
- Ethnic Orientation - Jewish
- Chronological Period - 20th Century
- Sex & Gender - Feminine
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Price on Product
Review Citations: Chronicle of Higher Education 02/19/2016 pg. 19
 
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Publisher Description:
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.

 
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