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Oksman, Tahneer. "Stranger in a Strange Land: Self-creation and self-exile in vanessa davis’s make me a woman." Studies in American Jewish Literature 32. (2013): 141–66. Added by: joachim (25/09/2013, 22:47) Last edited by: joachim (02/03/2014, 08:41) |
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| Resource type: Journal Article Language: en: English Peer reviewed DOI: 10.1353/ajl.2012.0033 BibTeX citation key: Oksman2013 Email resource to friend View all bibliographic details  |
Categories: General Keywords: "Make Me a Woman", Autobiography, Collage, Davis. Vanessa, Identity, Judaism Creators: Oksman Collection: Studies in American Jewish Literature |
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| Attachments | URLs http://www.jstor.o ... jewilite.32.2.0141 |
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This article examines the portrayal of selfhood in the American cartoonist Vanessa Davis’s graphic narrative, Make Me a Woman (2010). Characterized by multiple artistic styles and a general lack of clear-cut panel divisions, her collage-like memoir incorporates sketches alongside narrative and diary comics. The text visualizes the struggle of responding to preconceived notions of the self—especially what it means to be a secular Jewish American woman—and frames these intersectional identities as continually revisable and deeply individual processes of becoming. Formally and textually, Davis’s memoir reveals the ways that graphic narratives offer potentially complex, expansive, and anti-essentialist ways of representing and reading Jewish identity.
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