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Best known for her Eisner Award-winning graphic novels, Exit Wounds
and The Property, Rutu Modan's richly colored compositions invite
readers into complex Israeli society, opening up a world too often
defined only by news headlines. Her strong female protagonists
stick out in a comics scene still too dominated by men, as she
combines a mystery novelist's plotting with a memoirist's insights
into psychology and trauma. The Comics of Rutu Modan: War, Love,
and Secrets conducts a close reading of her work and examines her
role in creating a comics arts scene in Israel. Drawing upon
archival research, Kevin Haworth traces the history of Israeli
comics from its beginning as 1930s cheap children's stories,
through the counterculture movement of the 1970s, to the burst of
creativity that began in the 1990s and continues full force today.
Based on new interviews with Modan (b. 1966) and other comics
artists, Haworth indicates the key role of Actus Tragicus, the
collective that changed Israeli comics forever and launched her
career. Haworth shows how Modan's work grew from experimental
mini-comics to critically acclaimed graphic novels, delving into
the creative process behind Exit Wounds and The Property. He
analyzes how the recurring themes of family secrets and absence
weave through her stories, and how she adapts the famous clear line
illustration style to her morally complex tales. Though still
relatively young, Modan has produced a remarkably varied oeuvre.
Identifying influences from the United States and Europe, Haworth
illustrates how Modan's work is global in its appeal, even as it
forms a core of the thriving Israeli cultural scene.
Best known for her Eisner Award-winning graphic novels, Exit Wounds
and The Property, Rutu Modan's richly colored compositions invite
readers into complex Israeli society, opening up a world too often
defined only by news headlines. Her strong female protagonists
stick out in a comics scene still too dominated by men, as she
combines a mystery novelist's plotting with a memoirist's insights
into psychology and trauma. The Comics of Rutu Modan: War, Love,
and Secrets conducts a close reading of her work and examines her
role in creating a comics arts scene in Israel. Drawing upon
archival research, Kevin Haworth traces the history of Israeli
comics from its beginning as 1930s cheap children's stories,
through the counterculture movement of the 1970s, to the burst of
creativity that began in the 1990s and continues full force today.
Based on new interviews with Modan (b. 1966) and other comics
artists, Haworth indicates the key role of Actus Tragicus, the
collective that changed Israeli comics forever and launched her
career. Haworth shows how Modan's work grew from experimental
mini-comics to critically acclaimed graphic novels, delving into
the creative process behind Exit Wounds and The Property. He
analyzes how the recurring themes of family secrets and absence
weave through her stories, and how she adapts the famous clear line
illustration style to her morally complex tales. Though still
relatively young, Modan has produced a remarkably varied oeuvre.
Identifying influences from the United States and Europe, Haworth
illustrates how Modan's work is global in its appeal, even as it
forms a core of the thriving Israeli cultural scene.
In this new edition of Janet Lewis's classic short novel, "The Wife
of Martin Guerre," Swallow Press executive editor Kevin Haworth
writes that Lewis's story is "a short novel of astonishing depth
and resonance, a sharply drawn historical tale that asks
contemporary questions about identity and belonging, about men and
women, and about an individual's capacity to act within an
inflexible system." Originally published in 1941, The Wife of
Martin Guerre has earned the respect and admiration of critics and
readers for over sixty years.
Based on a notorious trial in sixteenth-century France, this story
of Bertrande de Rols is the first of three novels making up Lewis's
Cases of Circumstantial Evidence suite (the other two are "The
Trial of Soren Qvist" and "The Ghost of Monsieur Scarron").
Swallow Press is delighted and honored to offer readers beautiful
new editions of all three "Cases of Circumstantial Evidence"
novels, each featuring a new introduction by Kevin Haworth.
Originally published in 1947, The Trial of S\u00f6ren Qvist has
been praised by a number of critics for its intriguing plot and
Janet Lewis's powerful writing. And in the introduction to this new
edition, Swallow Press executive editor and author Kevin Haworth
calls attention to the contemporary feeling of the story-despite
its having been written more than fifty years ago and set several
hundred years in the past. As in Lewis's best-known novel, The Wife
of Martin Guerre, the plot derives from Samuel March Phillips's
nineteenth-century study, Famous Cases of Circumstantial Evidence,
in which this British legal historian considered the trial of
Pastor S\u00f6ren Qvist to be the most striking case.
This historical novel is the third and final book in American poet
and fiction writer Janet Lewis's "Cases of Circumstantial Evidence"
series, based on legal case studies compiled in the nineteenth
century. In "The Ghost of Monsieur Scarron," Lewis returns to her
beloved France, the setting of "The Wife of Martin Guerre," her
best-known novel and the first in the series. As Swallow Press
executive editor Kevin Haworth relates in a new introduction,
Monsieur Scarron shifts the reader into the center of Paris in
1694, during the turbulent reign of the Sun King, Louis XIV. The
junction of this time and place gives Monsieur Scarron an
intriguing political element not apparent in either "The Wife of
Martin Guerre" or "The Trial of Soren Qvist."
"The Ghost of Monsieur Scarron" begins in a small bookbinder's shop
on a modest Paris street, but inexorably expands to encompass a
tumultuous affair, growing social unrest, and the conflicts between
a legal system based on oppressive order and a society about to
undergo harsh changes. With its domestic drama set against a larger
political and historical backdrop, Monsieur Scarron is considered
by some critics and readers to be the most intricately layered and
fully realized book of Lewis's long career. Originally published in
1959, Monsieur Scarron has remained in print almost continuously
ever since.
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