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 ......
Vivid firsthand accounts reveal the lived experience of London's Jewish East End community. Through the words of twenty-six Yiddish writers, this book offers an unparalleled view into the life, labor, politics, and joys of London's historical Jewish East End community, from its heyday in the 1890s until the 1950s. Drawing from the light ......
Race and the Development of the European Fairy Tale
A transformative lens revealing the historical racial context that profoundly influenced European fairy tales.In stories retold for generations, wondrous worlds and magnificent characters have defined the genre of European fairy tales with little recognition of yet another defining aspect-racism and racialized thinking. Engaging four classic ......
Innovative contributions, systemic challenges, and the imperative for diversity in emerging digital media realms. Bolstered by the voices and experiences of dozens of women, nonbinary, and genderqueer new media practitioners, Mixed Realities explores the dynamic intersection of gender and emerging digital technologies. From realms of transmedia, ......
Jewish Women, Old San Francisco, and American Literary Culture
Repositioning women writers of the American West as formative to Jewish literature. Blending history, collective biography, and literary criticism, author Lori Harrison-Kahan repositions the American West as a generative space for turn-of-the-twentieth-century Jewish women's literature. This book demonstrates that California-based writers Emma ......
A personal testament in poetry to survival, resilience, and the complex legacy of the Holocaust.Available for the first time in English! In this harrowing firsthand account of the Holocaust, survivor Tobias Schiff displays the depths of human suffering, the capacity for hope and renewal, and the impact of starvation on the human mind. Schiff was ......
A groundbreaking exploration of how classic fairy tales have been transformed to illuminate and celebrate queer identities. This scholarly account provides a trailblazing examination of how contemporary authors, artists, and creators have reclaimed the fairy tale for queer audiences. Alba Morollon Diaz-Faes examines the queer threads in classic ......
A groundbreaking exploration of how classic fairy tales have been transformed to illuminate and celebrate queer identities. This scholarly account provides a trailblazing examination of how contemporary authors, artists, and creators have reclaimed the fairy tale for queer audiences. Alba Morollon Diaz-Faes examines the queer threads in classic ......
How a new generation of women-centered dramedies has revolutionized contemporary television. This timely and telling analysis identifies the formal and thematic innovations pioneered by millennial feminists between 2012 and 2020 that have shaped the trajectory of our favorite shows today. Author Vincent L. Stephens offers close readings of nine ......
