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Gamzou, Assaf and Ken Koltun-Fromm, eds. Comics and Sacred Texts: Reimagining Religion and Graphic Narratives. Jackson: Univ. Press of Mississippi, 2018. Added by: joachim (11/29/18, 11:17 AM) Last edited by: joachim (11/29/18, 11:20 AM) |
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| Resource type: Book Language: en: English ID no. (ISBN etc.): 9781496819215 BibTeX citation key: Gamzou2018 Email resource to friend View all bibliographic details  |
Categories: General Keywords: Collection of essays, Religion Creators: Gamzou, Koltun-Fromm Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi (Jackson) |
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Comics and Sacred Texts explores how comics and notions of the sacred interweave new modes of seeing and understanding the sacral. Comics and graphic narratives help readers see religion in the everyday and in depictions of God, in transfigured, heroic selves as much as in the lives of saints and the meters of holy languages. Coeditors Assaf Gamzou and Ken Koltun-Fromm reveal the graphic character of sacred narratives, imagining new vistas for both comics and religious texts. In both visual and linguistic forms, graphic narratives reveal representational strategies to encounter the sacred in all its ambivalence. Through close readings and critical inquiry, these essays contemplate the intersections between religion and comics in ways that critically expand our ability to think about religious landscapes, rhetorical practices, pictorial representation, and the everyday experiences of the uncanny. |