The Bible and Comics: Women, Power and Representation in Graphic Narratives
Ebook
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.
This book discusses constructions of women, motherhood and power in biblical comics, arguing that graphic novels often reinterpret and re-present traditional concepts of biblical characters in surprising ways.
The first monograh specifically focused on the representation of women in biblical comics, reflecting the increase in the number of biblical comics being produced
Contextualises the effect new remediations of biblical material have on traditional readings of women in the Bible
Develops upon existing scholarly work in the fields of feminist biblical studies and comics studies, presenting an interdisciplinary study which identifies avenues for further study in reception history of the Bible
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Chapter One: Introducing the Bible and Comics
Chapter Two: Reading the Bible and/as/in Comic Books
Case Studies
Chapter Three: “Word-for-Word” Bible Comics and Sarah: Challenging Authority
Chapter Four: Manga Bibles and Potiphar's Wife: Dramatizing Emotions
Chapter Five: Playful Comic Book Bibles and Rebekah: Breaking Boundaries
Chapter Six: Satirical and Subversive Comic Bibles and Eve: Revealing Texts
Chapter Seven: Drawing Conclusions
Bibliography
Index
- Title: The Bible and Comics: Women, Power and Representation in Graphic Narratives
- Author: Zanne Domoney-Lyttle
- Publisher: T&T Clark
- Print Publication Date: 2024
- Logos Release Date: 2024
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9780567713919, 9780567687968, 0567687961, 0567713911
- Resource ID: LLS:9780567713919
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-05-12T04:35:31Z
Zanne Domoney-Lyttle achieved her PhD in Theology & Religious Studies from the University of Glasgow, UK. Her specialisms include reading the Bible in popular cultures, biblical reception, and women and gender in the Hebrew Bible.