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

by Tahneer Oksman

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231172753
• ISBN13: 9780231172752
• Release Date: February 2016
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.0" x 9.9"