{"product_id":"9780814349120","title":"The Story's Not Over: Jewish Women and Embodied Selfhood in Graphic Narratives","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe diverse forms and structures of graphic narratives discussed in this volume by a range of international scholars demonstrate the ways in which Jewish women's graphic narratives reach into the past by way of stories and histories, both individual and collective, that provide a touchstone for the shape of identity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher Marketing\u003c\/strong\u003e: This critical new volume, edited brilliantly by Victoria Aarons, makes a convincing case that the genre of the graphic novel will be an increasingly essential topic of study for the fields of Judaic studies, literary and feminist studies, Holocaust and memory studies, and so many more. The volume presents the leading scholars and practitioners in the field today, analyzing key questions in Jewish women's graphic novels that center such topics as identity, Jewish history, testimony, memory, trauma, Holocaust memory, and the representation of the self. The chapters in this volume argue quite convincingly that the story of Jewish women and the graphic novel is not over; indeed, the story is just beginning. --Avinoam Patt Commendation Quotes : How can dissatisfaction, otherness, discomfort, and defiance be presented in comics form? Victoria Aarons has edited this enthralling and tender collection of essays about expressions of the self in the comics of Jewish women. Accompanied by an expansive and deeply informed introduction by Aarons, the fifteen essays and one interview carefully deliberate on the multifarious ways that Jewish memory and experiences impact identity. These timely contributions by erudite scholars are a must-read, not only for graphic artists or comics studies scholars but also for anyone who struggles with their own identity or their history, culture, and place in the world. --Sarah Lightman Commendation Quotes : This exceptionally exciting tapestry of elegantly written and illuminating essays by some of the greatest critical luminaries in the field grapples with the myriad pathways through which Jewish female graphic artists explore the intricate interplay of their subjectivities, memories, identities, and sense of un\/belonging. There is much to be grateful for in the contributors' breathtakingly illuminating and fresh approaches to some of the most intimate, imaginative, culturally subversive, and visually startling graphic narrative works across the Jewish cultural world. Victoria Aarons helms this rare collection that is truly essential for the classroom and scholarship alike; its lively discussions deliver an exceptionally lucid genealogy of the transformative and endlessly inventive explorations of Jewish feminist graphic memoirs and storytelling. --Ranen Omer-Sherman Commendation Quotes : The Story's Not Over is a rich and vital addition to the growing body of work on Jewish women's contributions to the graphic narrative form. Victoria Aarons has brought together an expansive collection of authors who not only shed new light on instant classics but introduce readers to titles they may not have previously encountered. Every chapter brings new and exciting insights for both scholars and fans. --Jennifer Caplan Promotional Headline : Examining through text and image what it means to be a woman, a Jew, and an artist. Jacket Description\/Back : 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. Biographical Note : 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 \u0026amp; 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 . Publisher Marketing : 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 the intersections and juxtapositions of word and image, authors capture the complexities and anxieties of gender and Jewishness in navigating memory, identity, and embodied self-expression. Jewish women graphic novelists are preoccupied often with embodied memory, memories of loss, memories of personal and collective histories, and memories of transformative moments of self-reinvention. Here, memory materializes in the drawn shape of the body as an expression of the weight of personal and collective histories. The innovative and fluid conventions of graphic narrative panels, gutters, spaces of separation, bleeds, and juxtapositions of text and image embody the self. The diverse forms and structures of graphic narratives discussed in this volume by a range of international scholars demonstrate the ways in which Jewish women's graphic narratives reach into the past by way of stories and histories, both individual and collective, that provide a touchstone for the shape of identity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Hardcover | \u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 376 | \u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2025-05-27\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wayne State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46494744903811,"sku":"9780814349120","price":92.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0564\/6830\/8099\/files\/9780814349120.jpg?v=1770350327","url":"https:\/\/sebink.com\/products\/9780814349120","provider":"Sebink","version":"1.0","type":"link"}