Comic Books, Graphic Novels and the Holocaust
This book analyses the portrayals of the Holocaust in newspaper cartoons, educational pamphlets, short stories and graphic novels. Focusing on recognised and lesser-known illustrators from Europe and beyond, the volume looks at autobiographical and fictional accounts and seeks to paint a broader picture of Holocaust comic strips from the 1940s to the present. The book shows that the genre is a capacious one, not only dealing with the killing of millions of Jews but also with Jewish lives in war-torn Europe, the personal and transgenerational memory of the Second World War and the wider national and transnational legacies of the Shoah. The chapters in this collection point to the aesthetic diversity of the genre which uses figurative and allegorical representation, as well as applying different stylistics, from realism to fantasy. Finally, the contributions to this volume show new developments in comic books and graphic novels on the Holocaust, including the rise of alternative publications, aimed at the adult reader, and the emergence of state-funded educational comics written with young readers in mind.
This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Modern Jewish Studies.
Ewa Staczyk is Lecturer in East European Studies at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. She is the author of Contact Zone Identities in the Poetry of Jerzy Harasymowicz (2012) and has recently completed her second book on the politics of memory in Poland.
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Contents
Ewa Staczyk
Kees Ribbens
Sean Eedy
Ewa Staczyk
Paolino Nappi
Jos Alaniz
Diederik Oostdijk
Dana Mihilescu
Claire Gorrara
Guide
The chapters in this book were originally published in the Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, volume 17, issue 1 (February 2018). When citing this material, please use the original page numbering for each article, as follows:
Introduction
Introduction
Ewa Staczyk
Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, volume 17, issue 1 (February 2018) pp. 17
Chapter 1
Picturing anti-Semitism in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands: anti-Jewish stereotyping in a racist Second World War comic strip
Kees Ribbens
Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, volume 17, issue 1 (February 2018) pp. 823
Chapter 2
Four colour anti-fascism: postwar narratives and the obfuscation of the Holocaust in East German comics
Sean Eedy
Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, volume 17, issue 1 (February 2018) pp. 2435
Chapter 3
De-Judaizing the Shoah in Polish comic books
Ewa Staczyk
Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, volume 17, issue 1 (February 2018) pp. 3650
Chapter 4
Between memory, didacticism and the Jewish revival: the Holocaust in Italian comic books
Paolino Nappi
Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, volume 17, issue 1 (February 2018) pp. 5163
Chapter 5
The Shoah, Czech comics and Drda/Mazals The Enormous Disc of the Sun
Jos Alaniz
Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, volume 17, issue 1 (February 2018) pp. 6478
Chapter 6
Draw yourself out of it: Miriam Katins graphic metamorphosis of trauma
Diederik Oostdijk
Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, volume 17, issue 1 (February 2018) pp. 7992
Chapter 7
Mapping transgenerational memory of the Shoah in third generation graphic narratives: on Amy Kurzweils Flying Couch (2016)
Dana Mihilescu
Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, volume 17, issue 1 (February 2018) pp. 93110
Chapter 8
Not seeing Auschwitz: memory, generation and representations of the Holocaust in twenty-first century French comics
Claire Gorrara
Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, volume 17, issue 1 (February 2018) pp. 111126
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Jos Alaniz is Associate Professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Washington, Seattle, USA. He is the author of Komiks: Comic Art in Russia (2010).
Sean Eedy is a recent PhD Graduate from Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. He has published on East German socialist comics culture in the 1960s and nostalgia in German Wende novels. He also has a chapter on DEFA animated fairy-tale films in a forthcoming volume from Camden House.
Claire Gorrara is Professor of French Studies at Cardiff University, UK. She has written extensively on memories and representations of the Second World War in French culture and is currently researching visual cultures of war and conflict. She has recently published articles in the Journal of War and Culture Studies and French Politics, Culture and Society.
