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The Resource "How come boys get to keep their noses?" : women and Jewish American identity in contemporary graphic memoirs, Tahneer Oksman

"How come boys get to keep their noses?" : women and Jewish American identity in contemporary graphic memoirs, Tahneer Oksman

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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
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Extent
xiii, 274 pages
Contents
  • 115
  • 4
  • "But you don't live here, so what's the dilemma?": Birthright and Accountability in the Geographies of Sarah Glidden and Miriam Libicki
  • 167
  • 1
  • "My Independent Jewish Monster Temperament": The Serial Selves of Aline Kominsky Crumb
  • 23
  • 2
  • "What Would Make Me the Most 'Myself": Self-Creation and Self-Exile in Vanessa Davis's Diary and Autobiographical Comics
  • 67
  • 3
  • "I Always Want to Know Everything True": Memory, Adolescence, and Belonging in the Graphic Memoirs of Miss Lasko-Gross and Lauren Weinstein
Isbn
9780231172752
Instance
Label
"How come boys get to keep their noses?" : women and Jewish American identity in contemporary graphic memoirs
Title
"How come boys get to keep their noses?"
Title remainder
women and Jewish American identity in contemporary graphic memoirs
Statement of responsibility
Tahneer Oksman
Creator
Subject
Language
eng
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
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index present
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
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Gender and culture
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"How come boys get to keep their noses?" : women and Jewish American identity in contemporary graphic memoirs, Tahneer Oksman
Instantiates
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
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volume
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
  • 115
  • 4
  • "But you don't live here, so what's the dilemma?": Birthright and Accountability in the Geographies of Sarah Glidden and Miriam Libicki
  • 167
  • 1
  • "My Independent Jewish Monster Temperament": The Serial Selves of Aline Kominsky Crumb
  • 23
  • 2
  • "What Would Make Me the Most 'Myself": Self-Creation and Self-Exile in Vanessa Davis's Diary and Autobiographical Comics
  • 67
  • 3
  • "I Always Want to Know Everything True": Memory, Adolescence, and Belonging in the Graphic Memoirs of Miss Lasko-Gross and Lauren Weinstein
Control code
sky2ocm75296268
Dimensions
26 cm.
Extent
xiii, 274 pages
Isbn
9780231172752
Isbn Type
(pbk. : alk. paper)
Lccn
2015017794
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Other control number
40025727787
Other physical details
illustrations
Label
"How come boys get to keep their noses?" : women and Jewish American identity in contemporary graphic memoirs, Tahneer Oksman
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
  • 115
  • 4
  • "But you don't live here, so what's the dilemma?": Birthright and Accountability in the Geographies of Sarah Glidden and Miriam Libicki
  • 167
  • 1
  • "My Independent Jewish Monster Temperament": The Serial Selves of Aline Kominsky Crumb
  • 23
  • 2
  • "What Would Make Me the Most 'Myself": Self-Creation and Self-Exile in Vanessa Davis's Diary and Autobiographical Comics
  • 67
  • 3
  • "I Always Want to Know Everything True": Memory, Adolescence, and Belonging in the Graphic Memoirs of Miss Lasko-Gross and Lauren Weinstein
Control code
sky2ocm75296268
Dimensions
26 cm.
Extent
xiii, 274 pages
Isbn
9780231172752
Isbn Type
(pbk. : alk. paper)
Lccn
2015017794
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Other control number
40025727787
Other physical details
illustrations

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