Jewish Women and Embodied Selfhood in Graphic Narratives
Examining through text and image what it means to be a woman, a Jew, and an artist. 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 spaces--emotional, geographical, psychological--that women inhabit. Through ......
Jewish Women and Embodied Selfhood in Graphic Narratives
Examining through text and image what it means to be a woman, a Jew, and an artist. 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 spaces--emotional, geographical, psychological--that women inhabit. Through ......
A highly anticipated examination of the cultural impact of a reimagined fan-favorite P.I. series. This popular television show centering the cynical, fallible, and likeable private investigator Jim Rockford finally receives its due attention in this book. Combining social analysis with close televisual analysis, scholar Amanda Keeler illustrates ......
Recounting a life--and language--by an esteemed scholar of African American rhetoric. In this powerful coming-of-age memoir, author, scholar, and language scholar Keith Gilyard presents a testament to the transformative power of language. From his earliest days in the segregated New York City public schools of the 1950s and '60s through his ......
The Garveyites, the Klan, and the Wobblies, 1905-1930
An excavation of populist movements in the US and their associated religious tropes. In this work, author Colin Bossen argues that for over a century, American populist movements--even explicitly secular ones--have drawn on religious ideas and practices to infuse their politics and bring people together. Bossen explores Pan-African populism, ......
The Garveyites, the Klan, and the Wobblies, 1905-1930
An excavation of populist movements in the US and their associated religious tropes. In this work, author Colin Bossen argues that for over a century, American populist movements--even explicitly secular ones--have drawn on religious ideas and practices to infuse their politics and bring people together. Bossen explores Pan-African populism, ......
Award-winning stories about growing up and finding resiliency amid uncertainty. In 1970s and '80s Detroit, the city wrestles with an unending economic downturn, increasing violence, and white exodus to the suburbs. Amid all of this is twentysomething Mary who is just trying to grapple with her identity in a world filled with uncertainty. In ......
Exploring the people and contexts that imbue Jewish material culture with its meaning. In museums, synagogues, antique stores, and personal collections, Jewish objects are gathered, studied, and passed down as material representations of a culture and faith. What defines these items as "Jewish," and how does an item acquire or lose this ......
Exploring the people and contexts that imbue Jewish material culture with its meaning. In museums, synagogues, antique stores, and personal collections, Jewish objects are gathered, studied, and passed down as material representations of a culture and faith. What defines these items as "Jewish," and how does an item acquire or lose this ......
