THIS INTERDISCIPLINARY VOLUME SEEKS TO TRACE THE DIVERSE WAYS IN WHICH
STORIES OF BIBLICAL WOMEN HAVE BEEN REIMAGINED IN AND AS COMIC BOOKS.
Feminist biblical scholarship has previously addressed the tradition
that relegates female biblical characters to secondary roles, merely
enabling the male characters to attain their own goals. Using examples
from both secular and religious comic Bibles, and comic Bibles aimed
at children and older audiences, Zanne Domoney-Lyttle now fully
considers contemporary remediations of biblical narratives to the same
degree.
Remediating ancient, biblical text into modern, graphical comic books
affects the reception of the text in several ways. This book aims to
investigate how the production, format, and function of comic Bibles
encourages the depiction of biblical characters from a contemporary
perspective, while also showing some fidelity to the text. By
presenting a focused analysis on women in the Bible, wider issues
concerning popular-cultural retellings of the Bible in general begin
to surface, including matters concerning reception history, the space
between art and literature inhabited by biblical comics, and issues of
translation and interpretations within contemporary remediations.
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Women, Power and Representation in Graphic Narratives
Product details
ISBN
9780567713919
Published
2024
Edition
1. edition
Publisher
Bloomsbury UK
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
Author