Pub Date : 2018-10-18DOI: 10.14325/mississippi/9781496819215.003.0013
Shiamin Kwa
This essay analyzes Kevin Huizenga’s comicsand shows how they signal our awareness to the conscious act of supposing in the construction of meaning in our everyday lives. Purposely withholding explanation, and making the reader do the work of parsing the visual assumptions of the surface to understand the basic action depicted in the frame, Walkin’ models the processes we use when we try to make sense of what we see. Those processes are each small narratives of meaning, but they are occurring so quickly in our minds that their strangeness is hardly ever noticed. This comic continuously reminds the reader of the strangeness of the common, a strangeness that should give them pause. By making readers attend to the intersections of lines on the surface of the page, Huizenga’s comics suggest the possibilities of more metaphysical intersections.
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Pub Date : 2018-10-18DOI: 10.14325/mississippi/9781496819215.003.0003
Leah Hochman
This chapter discusses how two graphic novels—The Rabbi’s Cat by Joann Sfar and Tina’s Mouth: An Existential Diary by KeshniKashyap—illustrate awe, sanctity and ineffability. In exploring how each narrative exposes the sacred, this chapter looks at the interplay between word and image, suggesting multiple, concurrent, and layered definitions of divinity. Each text creates a multi-layered conversation inviting the reader to explore textual/visual accounts of the sacred. This dynamic relationship between visual and written narratives informs how readers integrate words from a type of visual dialogue in order to unpack multiple meanings. That kind of agency suggests a graphic articulation of what Mikhail Bakhtin named heteroglossia (multi-languagedness)—the multiple contemporaneous literary exchanges that operate in different spheres. The heteroglossia of the graphic novel allows the reader to envisage multiple, simultaneous interpretations of the sacred.
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Pub Date : 2018-10-18DOI: 10.14325/mississippi/9781496819215.003.0007
Ranen Omer‐Sherman
This chapter discusses how Tom Gauld’sGoliath places the reader in the position of a hapless Philistine in a visually and textually poetic rendering of 1 Samuel that ultimately challenges the mythic portentousness of all messianic/nationalist narratives. Goliath’s two-color panels counter the traditional ways that the story has been construed in Gauld’s appealing portrait of a gentle giant who is entirely content to spend his days poring over official paperwork. Gauld’s disruptive text may be usefully considered alongside new scholarly interventions that assess the inconvenient material and historical realities that may be lurking just beneath the biblical text. Goliath reveals how ancient scripts of violence are encoded in the mythic conflicts of a tiny homeland, and expresses a growing artistic movement impatient with the dominance of conventional alliances between political hegemony and the sacred.
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Pub Date : 2018-10-18DOI: 10.14325/mississippi/9781496819215.003.0015
L. Kaplan
This essay explores Will Eisner’s work in A Contract with God (1978). The book, emanating from pre-biblical wisdom, is paradigmatic for its harsh warning about human expectations. In it, Eisner created parables and midrash, literary criticism and political commentary, to capture moments that reveal a culture to itself. This emerging paradigm, the essay argues, is a new form of Jewish wisdom.The essay reads Eisner’s work both through the work of Isaiah Berlin, but also as a Midrash on the book of Job. In utilizing Berlin’s political thought, along with the foundation of the biblical tale, one can discern Eisner’s vision of transformative, messianic politics, that lie in the vicissitudes and battles of the everyday.
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Pub Date : 2018-10-18DOI: 10.14325/mississippi/9781496819215.003.0012
Ofra Amihay
This essay explores the work of San Francisco-based artist Paul Madonna, his unique use of the tropes of imagetext and its implications concerning authority, readership and meaning in a post-modern, post-secular world. In reading through the absences in Madonna’s work – the absence of people in the landscape, the absence of an observing entity, the absence of a clear symbol and reference, this essay argues for a philosophical approach that underlies this work, one that can be dubbed “Durkheimian Existentialism.” In analyzing the ‘space’ Madonna creates in his work between an empty city landscape and human communication through the French thinker, Émile Durkheim, this essay argues for meaning behind the visual absence of people in Madonna’s comics: a celebration of people’s centrality and importance in a reality with no external meaning, to the extent that they themselves can become a revelation.
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Pub Date : 2018-10-18DOI: 10.14325/mississippi/9781496819215.003.0001
M. Backus, Ken Koltun-From
This chapter discusses how Craig Thompson’s Habibi (2011) constructs the oriental sacred through Arabic calligraphy, weaving sacrality into the visual and textual narrative of the imagined, exotic other. The exotic and even erotic forms of calligraphy stylize a natural and imminently accessible sacred that works within an oriental mode of visual exposure. We can see this oriental sacred in the natural landscape, in the mythic and salvific animals, in the Islamic textual traditions of hadiths and Qur’an, and in the material body of Dodola who captures the young Zam’s erotic fantasies. Thompson deploys calligraphy to open Islamic and Arabic culture to the oriental gaze, imagining the sacred within the imagined world of Richard Burton’s 1,001 Arabian Nights. Within this space and gaze, Arabic calligraphy takes on the form and function of the sacred orient.
本章讨论克雷格·汤普森(Craig Thompson)的《哈比比》(Habibi, 2011)如何通过阿拉伯书法构建东方神圣,将神圣性编织到想象的、异国他物的视觉和文本叙事中。书法的异国情调,甚至情色的形式形成了一种自然的,迫在眉睫的神圣,在一种东方的视觉暴露模式下工作。我们可以在自然景观中,在神话和拯救动物中,在伊斯兰传统的圣训和古兰经中,在Dodola的肉体中看到这种东方的神圣,Dodola抓住了年轻的Zam的性幻想。汤普森运用书法向东方人展示伊斯兰和阿拉伯文化,在理查德·伯顿(Richard Burton)的《一千零一夜》(1001 Arabian Nights)的想象世界中想象神圣的世界。在这个空间和凝视中,阿拉伯书法呈现出神圣东方的形式和功能。
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Pub Date : 2018-10-18DOI: 10.14325/mississippi/9781496819215.003.0010
Jeffrey L. Richey
This chapter describes and analyzes the ways in which Japanese youth interest in onmyōji—particularly the disproportionate interest shown by young Japanese women—engages the social realities of contemporary Japanese life., where feelings of uncertainty and precariousness abound. By utilizing a variety of disciplinary approaches to culture—among them those of anthropology, gender theory, history, literary criticism, and religious studies—it seeks to produce a fresh look at how the onmyōji “boom,” now some thirty years in duration with apparently enduring appeal, is relevant to contemporary concerns about cultural authenticity and identity, gender and sexuality, and spirituality and religion in Japan.
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Pub Date : 2018-10-18DOI: 10.14325/mississippi/9781496819215.003.0009
S. Langsdale
This essay argues that mainstream superhero comics have real pedagogical potential and that the Dark Phoenix Saga in particular might be taught in ways which are both critical and creative. Through employing an interdisciplinary approach — including feminist analysis of Christian mysticism, as well as postmodern theories of corporeality—the character of Jean Grey/Phoenix may be interpreted in ways which critique hegemonic definitions of female sexuality as monstrous and which constructively challenge certain assumptions about agency, identity, and embodiment. Specifically, this essay explores theories of religious subjectivity that do not rely solely on agency as subversion and disruption of the hegemonic narrative. The essay employs different theories and notions, like that of promising monsters (among others), to encourage reading of the Dark Phoenix saga not only as a monological patriarchal narrative about the threat of female sexuality and corporeality, and the dangers of mystical religious subjectivity, but as a text full of narratives, agencies, interpretative and pedagogical possibilities.
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Pub Date : 2018-10-18DOI: 10.14325/mississippi/9781496819215.003.0005
Karline Mclain
This chapter focuses on the multivocal nature of the Ramayana epic in Indian graphic narratives from the 1970s to the present. There are two dominant narrative trends that arise in these graphic retellings. The first trend is to uphold Rama as the ideal god-king by presenting Rama as the clear hero of the epic story both textually and visually. The second trend is to critique Rama as the ideal god-king by focusing the textual and visual narrative on other protagonists within the epic storyline, and thereby engage in a critical examination of Rama through feminist and/or subaltern perspectives. This essay sheds light on the contested interpretation of the god Rama within contemporary Hinduism and South Asian culture more broadly. These comics that idealize Rama and those that question his idealism, when taken together, are valuable for their ongoing contributions to the multivocal nature of the Ramayana story.
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Pub Date : 2018-10-18DOI: 10.14325/mississippi/9781496819215.003.0014
Joshua Plencner
This essay analyses Fallen Son: The Death of Captain America (2007), a five-issue limited series from Marvel Comics. The series is designed as an exploration of grief and bereavement, looking in on the moments unfolding in the wake of Captain America’s death and tracing out the reactions of Marvel’s most central characters to the loss of their friend and comrade as they work through the stages model of grief famously articulated by Kübler-Ross. But rather than analyze Fallen Son as a demonstration of that model, this essay suggests that it is more useful to read the series for the ways that it undermines Kübler-Ross’ framework, navigating the complex affective territory of grief in loss by challenging the very diagrammatic structure of staged emotional categories it purports to employ as narrative chapters.
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