This book explores how Israeli graphic novelists present depictions of masculinity and femininity that differ from conventional portrayals of gender in Israeli society, rejecting the ways that hypermasculinity and docile femininity have come to be associated with men and women.
The book is the first to explore Israeli graphic novels through the lens of gender. It argues that breaking down existing gender delineations with regards to masculinity and femininity is a core feature of the Israeli graphic novel and comics tradition and that through their works, the authors and artists use their platforms to present a freer and looser conceptualization of gender for Israeli society. Undertaking close readings of Israeli graphic novels that have been published in English and/or Hebrew in the last 20 years, the book’s texts include Rutu Modan’s Exit Wounds and The Property, Ari Folman and David Polonsky’s Waltz with Bashir, Galit and Gilad Seliktar’s Farm 54, and Asaf Hanuka’s "The Realist".
This book is of interest to students and scholars in comics studies, Israel Studies, Jewish Studies, and Gender Studies.
Author(s): Matt Reingold
Series: (Routledge Focus on Gender, Sexuality, and Comics)
Edition: 1
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2021
Language: English
Pages: 116
Tags: Literary Criticism, Literary Theory, Jewish Literature, Hebrew Literature
Cover
Half Title
Series Information
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Notes
1 Complex Masculinities and the Not-So-Macho Man in Israeli Graphic Novels
Compassionate Soldiers in Ari Folman and David Polonsky’s Waltz With Bashir
Reconciling Romantics in Rutu Modan’s Exit Wounds
Sensitivity in the Necropolis in Etgar Keret and Asaf Hanuka’s Pizzeria Kamikaze
Mizrahi Manliness in Asaf Hanuka’s “The Realist”
Notes
2 Outspoken and Adventurous Women in Israeli Graphic Novels
Erotic Desire and Arab Friendship in Galit and Gilad Seliktar’s Farm 54
Independent Women in Rutu Modan’s The Property
Envisioning a Western Woman in Asaf Hanuka’s “The Realist”
Notes
3 Gender, Minorities, and the Hebrew Graphic Novel
Navigating the Past and the Present in Michel Kichka’s Second Generation: Things I Didn’t Tell My Father and Falafel With Hot Sauce
Religious Awakenings in Shay Charka’s Beyond the Line
Lesbian Excursions in Ilana Zeffren’s “Zina” and “Holidays”
Notes
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
