2025
Airing the Shared Past The Revitalization of American Jewish Immigrant Narrative in Leela Corman’s Unterzakhn
WEISS, MichaelaBasic information
Original name
Airing the Shared Past The Revitalization of American Jewish Immigrant Narrative in Leela Corman’s Unterzakhn
Authors
Edition
1. vyd. Detroit, The Story's Not Over Jewish Women and Embodied Selfhood in Graphic Narratives, p. 47-68, 22 pp. 2025
Publisher
Wayne State University Press
Other information
Language
English
Type of outcome
Chapter(s) of a specialized book
Field of Study
60206 Specific literatures
Country of publisher
United States of America
Confidentiality degree
is not subject to a state or trade secret
Publication form
printed version "print"
Marked to be transferred to RIV
Yes
RIV identification code
RIV/47813059:19240/25:A0001503
Organization unit
Faculty of Philosophy and Science in Opava
ISBN
978-0-8143-4912-0
Keywords in English
American comics; immigration narrative; feminisms; Lower East Side; Jewish literature
Tags
International impact, Reviewed
Changed: 28/11/2025 09:44, doc. PhDr. Michaela Weiss, Ph.D.
Abstract
In the original language
This chapter discusses the methods and effects of representing the lives of Jewish women in Corman’s multilingual historical graphic novel Unterzakhn in the context of immigrant narratives. Corman’s text com- bines the unsentimental approach of Anzia Yezierska and the expressive visual style of Will Eisner to create a graphic novel that offers new per- spectives on the traditional tropes of the immigration narrative: educa- tion, financial security, respectability, and gender roles.