The Story's Not Over: Jewish Women and Embodied Selfhood in Graphic Narratives - Paperback

by Victoria Aarons (Editor), Leela Corman (Interviewee)

Back Jacket

This comprehensive collection considers Jewish women graphic novelists and the richly figured ways in which Jewish identity is complicated by gender, memory, generation, and place. The contributors to this volume demonstrate how graphic narratives can capture the complexities of identity through the juxtapositions of word and image. Often preoccupied with memory--of loss, of personal and collective histories, and of transformative moments--graphic novels allow memory to materialize in the drawn shape of the body as an expression of personal and collective histories. The innovative and fluid conventions of graphic narratives embody the self through panels, gutters, spaces of separation, and bleeds and in the unexpected joining of text and image. The diverse forms and structures of graphic narratives discussed in this volume by a range of international scholars demonstrate how graphic narratives reach into the past to provide a touchstone for the shape of identity.

Author Biography

Victoria Aarons is distinguished professor of literature at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. She is the author or editor of twelve books, including Memory Spaces: Visualizing Identity in Jewish Women's Graphic Narratives (Wayne State University Press). Aarons is series editor for Rowman & Littlefield's Lexington Studies in Jewish Literature and serves on the editorial board of several peer-reviewed publications, including Philip Roth Studies, Studies in American Jewish Literature, and Women in Judaism.