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Camus, Cyril. "The “Outsider”: Neil Gaiman and the Old Testament." Shofar 29.(2011): 77–99. Added by: joachim (2/16/12, 7:55 PM) Last edited by: joachim (2/22/21, 4:53 PM) |
| Resource type: Journal Article Language: en: English Peer reviewed DOI: 10.1353/sho.2011.0051 BibTeX citation key: Camus2011 Email resource to friend View all bibliographic details  |
Categories: General Keywords: "Bible", "Outrageous Tales from the Old Testament", "The Sandman", Adaptation, Gaiman. Neil, Intertextuality, Judaism, Religion, Satire, United Kingdom, USA Creators: Camus Collection: Shofar |
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Neil Gaiman’s educational environment was divided between Jewish family and Anglican schooling. Raised up as a cultural outsider, he has cultivated his detached outlook, moving from England to the United States and depicting the latter from a British perspective in Sandman and American Gods. His cheerful embracement of the position of the “alien” also shows in his use and rewritings of the foundational Judaic text, the Old Testament, in the six scripts he contributed for the British comics-anthology of theological satire Outrageous Tales from the Old Testament (Knockabout, 1987), and in his comics-series Sandman (DC, 1988–1996), where the explicit linking of DC characters to their biblical roots, and the use of Midrashic references, operate as a resacralization that counterbalance the desacralization at the core of Outrageous Tales.
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