Confronting the Shadow of the Holocaust through Transcultural Memory Networks: Martin Lemelman's Mendel's Daughter (2006) and Two Cents Plain (2010).
This paper examines two graphic memoirs by Martin Lemelman that bring together contrasting points of view about the Holocaust and Jewish identity: Mendel's Daughter (2006) focuses on the Holocaust from the perspective of the author's mother, a Holocaust survivor, as passed down to the son born after...
| Publicado en: | Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies Vol. 38; no. 1; pp. 38 - 76 |
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Purdue University Press
Spring2020
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