Toward a hot Jew
By: graphic essays by Miriam Libicki ; editor, Gary Groth
Contributors: Groth, Gary, editor
Edition: First F.U. Press edition.
Publisher: F.U. Press, an imprint of Fantagraphics Books
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Seattle, Washington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 134
ISBN-13: 9781606999813
Subjects: Comic books, strips; Jews; Identity
Description: "Miriam Libicki navigates her dual U.S./Israeli citizenship--and what it means globally and culturally to be Jewish--in her first collection of essay comics. These intellectually engaging works of pencil-and-watercolor journalism, dating from her time in the Israeli military to her tenure as an art professor, investigate ethnicity, art, and sexuality. Via interviews, Libicki explores sociology in the Middle East and Jewish identity in comics history. Much like Art Spiegleman and Phoebe Gloeckner before her, Miriam Libicki's Toward a hot Jew is a new high watermark in nonfiction and autobiographical comics."--Page 4 of cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Who wants to be an art star --; title: Towards a hot Jew : the Israeli soldier as fetish object --; title: Ceasefire : Israel, August 12-17, 2006 --; title: Jewish memoir goes pow!, zap!, oy! : on autobiographical graphic novels, and why they are so Jewy --; title: Fierce ease : portraits of Israel, August/September 2008 --; title: Strangers : a long-distance view of Israel, May/June 2012 --; title: Stranging the welcomer : a theory of black and white and Jews all over.