Annotated Bibliography X-Men As J Men

Annotated Bibliography
Baron, Lawrence. "X-Men as J Men: The Jewish Subtext of a Comic Book Movie." Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies 22.1 (2003): 44-52. Web. This article assesses the metaphor of mutation as being a Jew. Baron starts his article by reviewing the upbringing of two popular Jewish creators of X-Men, Jack Kirby and Stan Lee. Baron also covers the military of both men in WWII which carries over to a pamphlet written by Stan Lee concerning Marvel 's “policy of telling the readers the truth about the Nazi menace.” Seen in this light, elements of the series such as the Mutant Registration Act are clearly an element of Nazism. Even Professor Xavier, who is never identified as being a Jew, looks like the stereotypical Jew who is physically weak but mentally strong and his methods of training his mutants to blend in and get along with humans are similar to the strategies used by many first generation Jews born in America.
"The Escapist: Fantasy, Folklore, and the Pleasures of the Comic Book in Recent Jewish American Holocaust Fiction." Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies 22.3 (2004): 56-71. Web. In this journal, Lee Behlman examines how three books by young Jewish American writer’s uses fantasy to represent the Holocaust. He explains that these writers had difficulty accessing historical experience so instead they use fantasy as a medium for representing Jewish folk culture before the Holocaust as a way to provide pleasure and escape through its diversions. Michael Chabon’s The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay present fantasy as a means for therapeutic escape from history. Lee also explains that Chabon directly confronts the problem by using non-realistic techniques—escapism, as artistic response to the