Bauer, Heike (2013) Graphic Lesbian Continuum: Ilana Zeffren. In: Lightman, S. (ed.) Graphic Details: Jewish Women’s Confessional Comics in Essays and Interviews. Jefferson, U.S.: McFarland, pp. 98-109. ISBN 9780786465538.
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Abstract
This chapter examines the work of Tel Aviv based cartoonist and graphic artist Ilana Zeffren, who publishes a weekly column in the entertainment magazine Achbar Hair. Entitled Rishumon – or “little sketch” – it is autobiographically inspired, featuring Zeffren, her girlfriend and their two speaking cats, Rafi and Spageti. The orientation of the cartoons – their lesbian starting points for considering, to borrow the words of Sara Ahmed, “how we come to find our way in a world that acquires new shapes, depending on which way we turn” – lends Zeffren’s work a particular critical currency. I argue that Zeffren's comics are both evidence of, and a contribution to, what I call a “graphic lesbian continuum”: a visual language that gives centrality to female same-sex life, challenging the cultural and critical imperatives to overlook female-identified sexuality.
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| Item Type: | Book Section |
|---|---|
| Keyword(s) / Subject(s): | comics, Jewish women, lesbian, Ilana Zeffren |
| School: | Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Creative Arts, Culture and Communication |
| Depositing User: | Heike Bauer |
| Date Deposited: | 12 Mar 2015 09:29 |
| Last Modified: | 09 Aug 2023 12:31 |
| URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/5289 |
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