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Activism
Affective history
Agency
Art and resistance
Author_Laini Kavaloski
Border representations
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Colonial mapping
Comics
Conflict
Contemporary memoirs
Cultural narratives
Decolonization
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Female body
Feminist lens
Future-making
Gender
Geopolitical borders
Ghettos
Graphic borders
Graphic narratives
Graphic War
Holocaust
Holocaust representation
Hybrid identities
Insecurity
Israeli War of Independence
Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Jewish belonging
Jewish identity
Jewish oppression
Jewish transnationalism
Jewish women
Joy
Julia Alekseyeva
Leela Corman
Materialist feminism
Memoirs
Memory
Militarization
Militarized boundaries
Militarized environments
Miriam Libicki
Nationalism
Nationhood
Political futures
Political history
Political structures
Pulp horror
Religion
Rhetorical constructs
Sarah Glidden
Security
Soviet occupation
Spatial forms
State structures
Transnational agency
Visual devices
Walls
War
War trauma
War zones
Women's bodies
WWII identity
Product details
- ISBN 9781978830981
- Weight: 254g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 31 May 2026
- Publisher: Rutgers University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Employing geographical and political structures to her analyses, Laini Kavaloski argues that spatial forms that represent boundaries such as walls, ghettos, and war zones together with the artistic renderings of emotion, gendered experiences, and cultural narratives make visible the consequences of war on bodies and political futures. Representations of Jewish territorial positions are not only metaphoric but are also active forces in determining the effects of boundaries—political and cultural— on Jewish lives. Through an archive of contemporary memoirs that grapple with Jewish experiences of war, Graphic War makes visible the consequences of state structures, militarized environments, and nationalisms on the female body and in doing so registers a shift from the persistent Jewish identification with 20th-century oppression toward a narrative of Jewish belonging based in transnational agency and activism in the 21st Century.
LAINI KAVALOSKI is an associate professor of English and humanities at the State University of New York in Canton.
