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Titre(s) : Comics and sacred texts [Texte imprimé] : reimagining religion & graphic narratives / edited by Assaf Gamzou, Ken Koltun-Fromm
Publication : Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2018
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (xxi, 299 p.) : ill. ; 24 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
"Comics and Sacred Texts explores how comics and notions of the sacred interweave
new modes of seeing and understanding the sacral. Comics and graphic narratives help
readers see religion in the everyday and in depictions of God, in transfigured, heroic
selves as much as in the lives of saints and the meters of holy languages. Coeditors
Ken Koltun-Fromm and Assaf Gamzou reveal the graphic character of sacred narratives,
imagining new vistas for both comics and religious texts. In both visual and linguistic
forms, graphic narratives reveal representational strategies to encounter the sacred
in all its ambivalence. Through close readings and critical inquiry, these essays
contemplate the intersections between religion and comics in ways that critically
expand our ability to think about religious landscapes, rhetorical practices, pictorial
representation, and the everyday experiences of the uncanny. Organized into four sections--Seeing
the Sacred in Comics; Reimagining Sacred Texts through Comics; Transfigured Comic
Selves, Monsters, and the Body; and The Everyday Sacred in Comics--the essays explore
comics and graphic novels ranging from Craig Thompson's Habibi and Marvel's X-Men
and Captain America to graphic adaptions of religious texts such as 1 Samuel and the
Gospel of Mark. Sacred Texts and Comics shows how claims to the sacred are nourished
and concealed in comic narratives. Covering many religions, not only Christianity
and Judaism, this rare volume contests the profane/sacred divide and establishes the
import of comics and graphic narratives in disclosing the presence of the sacred in
everyday human experience."--Provided by publisher
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Gamzou, Assaf (1984-....). Éditeur scientifique
Koltun-Fromm, Ken. Éditeur scientifique
Sujet(s) : Bandes dessinées -- Aspect religieux
Bandes dessinées -- Critique et interprétation
Super-héros -- Aspect religieux
Culture populaire -- Aspect religieux
Indice(s) Dewey :
741.5 (23e éd.)
Numéros : ISBN 9781496819215. - ISBN 1496819217 (rel). - ISBN 9781496819475. - ISBN 1496819470
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Table des matières : Seeing the sacred in comics ; Writing the sacred in Craig Thompson's Habibi ; God's
comics: the Hebrew alphabet as graphic narrative ; The ineffability of form: speaking
and seeing the sacred in Tina's Mouth and the Rabbi's Cat ; The seven traits of fictoscripture
and the wormhole sacred ; Reimagining sacred texts through comics ; Many comic book
Ramayanas: idealizing and opposing Rama as the righteous God-king ; The ending of
mark as a page-turn reveal ; Slaying a biblical archetype: 1 Samuel, Gauld's Goliath,
and the new midrash ; Transrendering biblical bodies: reading sex in the action bible
and genesis illustrated ; Transfigured comic selves, monsters, and the body ; The
dark phoenix as "promising monster": an interdisciplinary approach to teaching Marvel's
X-men: the dark phoenix saga ; "Honor the power within": Daoist wizards, popular
culture, and contemporary Japan's spiritual crisis ; Joe Kubert's Yossel: April 19,
1943: faith and art history's precedents ; The everyday sacred in comics ; Urban
revelation in Paul Madonna's postsecular comics ; The common place: the poetics of
the pedestrian in Kevin Huizenga's walkin' ; Marvel's fallen son and making the ordinary
sacred ; Will Eisner: master of graphic wisdom.
