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Hochman, Leah. "The Ineffability of Form: Speaking and Seeing the Sacred in Tina’s Mouth and The Rabbi’s Cat." Comics and Sacred Texts. Reimagining Religion and Graphic Narratives. Eds. Assaf Gamzou and Ken Koltun-Fromm. Jackson: Univ. Press of Mississippi, 2018. 43–55. Added by: Okwuchi Mba (08/06/2022, 15:52) Last edited by: joachim (08/06/2022, 19:38) |
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| Resource type: Book Chapter Language: en: English DOI: 10.2307/j.ctv7vcsv2.7 BibTeX citation key: Hochman2018 Email resource to friend View all bibliographic details  |
Categories: General Keywords: "Le chat du rabbin", "Tina’s Mouth", Asia, France, Kashyap. Keshni, Religion, Sfar. Joann, Singapore, USA Creators: Gamzou, Hochman, Koltun-Fromm Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi (Jackson) Collection: Comics and Sacred Texts. Reimagining Religion and Graphic Narratives |
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This chapter discusses how two graphic novels—The Rabbi’s Cat by Joann Sfar and Tina’s Mouth: An Existential Diary by Keshni Kashyap—illustrate awe, sanctity and ineffability. In exploring how each narrative exposes the sacred, this chapter looks at the interplay between word and image, suggesting multiple, concurrent, and layered definitions of divinity. Each text creates a multi-layered conversation inviting the reader to explore textual/visual accounts of the sacred. This dynamic relationship between visual and written narratives informs how readers integrate words from a type of visual dialogue in order to unpack multiple meanings. That kind of agency suggests a graphic articulation of what Mikhail Bakhtin named heteroglossia (multi-languagedness)—the multiple contemporaneous literary exchanges that operate in different spheres. The heteroglossia of the graphic novel allows the reader to envisage multiple, simultaneous interpretations of the sacred.
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