"How Come Boys Get to Keep Their Noses?": Women and Jewish American Identity in Contemporary Graphic Memoirs
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Title
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"How Come Boys Get to Keep Their Noses?": Women and Jewish American Identity in Contemporary Graphic Memoirs
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Identifier
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d_2009_2013:85fab490db5d:11812
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identifier
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12417
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Creator
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Oksman, Tahneer N.,
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Contributor
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Nancy K. Miller
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Date
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2013
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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American literature | Gender studies | Judaic studies | Autobiography | Comics | Graphic memoirs | Jewish identity | Visual memoir | Women
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Abstract
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This dissertation is devoted to a cohesive, theoretical exploration of Jewish American women and comics in the late twentieth and early twenty first centuries. Specifically, it argues that the autobiographical works of many Jewish American women cartoonists dynamically and productively encapsulate a new metaphor of Jewish identity as dis-affiliation through the complex and unique language of comics. Contemporary cartoonists who find themselves uncomfortable with conventional notions of what it means to claim and depict Jewishness are reconceptualizing Jewish difference by rebelling against dominant narratives and modes of Jewish representation. At the root of their graphic articulations, the women under examination in this study -- including Aline Kominsky Crumb, Vanessa Davis, Miss Lasko-Gross, Lauren Weinstein, Sarah Glidden, and Miriam Libicki -- reveal self-identification and self-representation as potentially transgressive acts that both bind people to and disconnect them from real and imagined communities, even as they allow for individualism in the forms of creative agency and choice.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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2009_2013.csv
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degree
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Ph.D.
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Program
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English
