Back to Black

Auteur

FABRICE LEROY is a professor of Francophone studies at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. He is the author of Sfar So Far: Identity, History, Fantasy, and Mimesis in Joann Sfar’s Graphic Novels and the coeditor of the collections Intermediality in French-Language Comics and Graphic Novels and The Cambridge Companion to the American Graphic Novel.

Texte du rabat

Back to Black provides the first full-length critical analysis of Jules Feiffer’s late-career graphic novels Kill My Mother (2014), Cousin Joseph (2016), and The Ghost Script (2018), examining how they pay playful homage to the cinematic techniques and iconography of film noir while addressing serious themes like McCarthyism, antisemitism, and gender discrimination.

Contenu

Introduction: Back to Black
Chapter One: From Oedipus to Hollywood: Trauma and Simulacrum in Kill My Mother
Chapter Two: Cousin Joseph: A Noir Take on the American Dream
Chapter Three: Revenge, Repetition, and Reflexivity in The Ghost Script
Conclusion: Homage, Experimentation, and Irony in the Trilogy
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index