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Sfar So Far

Identity, History, Fantasy, and Mimesis in Joann Sfar's Graphic Novels

Häftad, Engelska, 2014

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Includes an in-depth interview with French cartoonist Joann Sfar.Sfar So Far is the first monograph in any language devoted to the graphic novels of Joann Sfar, an artist whose abundant and innovative work has profoundly marked the contemporary French comics scene. This essay examines how, over the past two decades, Sfar has constructed an idiosyncratic universe with its own thematic and stylistic recurrences: a playful drafting style, contrasting with the thoughtful introduction of historical, theological, and philosophical matters; a sophisticated use of literary, filmic, musical, and pictorial references; an exploration of his own Jewish heritage in the context of a multicultural, postcolonial French society; an affinity for magic realism, fairy tales, heroic fantasy, the fantastique, and science fiction, often filtered through irony or parody; and a predilection for romantic musings and an interest in unconventional love stories. This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content).

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Utgivningsdatum2014-09-11
Mått170 x 231 x undefined mm
Vikt907 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieStudies in European Comics and Graphic Novels
Antal sidor304
FörlagLeuven University Press
ISBN9789462700062

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ContentsList of Illustrations 7Acknowledgements 9Introduction: Sfar so FarChapter One: Rewriting Jewishness. On Counter-Violence, Sexuality, and Humor in Pascin and Klezmer1. French Anti-Semitism in the Twenty-First Century: New and Old Trends2. A New Sephardic Consciousness3. On Two Narrative Prototypes of Jewishness in Pascin4. Variations on Guilt, Transgression, and Violence in Klezmer Chapter Two: Sfar's Historiographics. On the Representation of History and Memory in Les Carnets d'Odessa and La Comtesse Éponyme1. Framing Odessa as a “Lieu de Mémoire:” Sfar's Carnet d'Odessa 2. Sfar's Ironic Take on the Enlightenment in Les Lumières de la France Chapter Three: Painting Painters. On Mimesis, Meta-Representation, and Intertextuality in Pascin, Le Chat du Rabbin, and Chagall en Russie1. Pascin: Image and Reality 2. Sfar Conjures Marc Chagall (Again): The Politics of Visual Representation in Le Chat du Rabbin3. Painting the Painter: Meta-Representation and Magic Realism in Joann Sfar's Chagall en RussieChapter Four: Reinventing Fantastique Figures. On the Devil, the Vampire, the Werewolf, the Wizard, and the Golem in Professeur Bell and Le Bestiaire Amoureux1. “Everything is more complicated in Jerusalem:” Religion and the Devil in Les Poupées de Jérusalem2. From the Bestiary to the Bestiaire Amoureux: a New Take on Fantastique Creatures Klezmer V, or the Impossible Conclusion An Interview with Joann Sfar: “I am not currently working on any comics, for the first time in 20 years.”Notes Works Cited Gallery with Color Figures