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23%OFFTahneer Oksman - How Come Boys Get to Keep Their Noses? : Women and Jewish American Identity in Contemporary Graphic Memoirs - 9780231172745 - V9780231172745
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How Come Boys Get to Keep Their Noses? : Women and Jewish American Identity in Contemporary Graphic Memoirs

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Description for How Come Boys Get to Keep Their Noses? : Women and Jewish American Identity in Contemporary Graphic Memoirs Hardback. Series: Gender and Culture Series. Num Pages: 296 pages, Color insert and 62 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; FZG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 23. Weight in Grams: 454.
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 ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Condition
New
Series
Gender and Culture Series
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231172745
SKU
V9780231172745
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About Tahneer Oksman
Tahneer Oksman is assistant professor and director of the Writing Program at Marymount Manhattan College. She has published articles in a/b: Auto/Biography Studies, Studies in Comics, and Studies in American Jewish Literature, as well as the Forward, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and Cleaver Magazine, where she is the graphic narratives reviews editor.

Reviews for How Come Boys Get to Keep Their Noses? : Women and Jewish American Identity in Contemporary Graphic Memoirs
A careful and nuanced exploration of the complexities of identity and identification, How Come Boys Get to Keep Their Noses? is an excellent and ground-breaking work, invaluable to scholars of Jewish studies, comics studies, and women's studies.
Jeremy Dauber, Director, Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies, Columbia University As a cartoonist who is a woman and who ... Read more

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