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JWST 278 - Jewish Ink: The Graphic Novel


Semester Offered: First Semester
Credits (Range): 3 Hours
Attribute: 3HU, CD, WR
New course added 05.05.10.

This course explores illustrated books, comic art, and graphic novels, examining them in the context of global change and 20th century Jewish art and literature. We will discuss transformations in the medium, narrative and graphic styles, and representations of identity and experience in the Holocaust, Orthodoxy and secularism, global Diaspora, the Israeli army, and the afterlife. Artists include Art Spiegelman, Tomer and Asaf Hanuka, Etgar Keret, Joann Sfar and Will Eisner.
Enrollment Limit: 25
Instructor: K. Rubinstein
Consent of the Instructor Required? No


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