“There’s no question I was the right artist for that job,” Rudahl said. Both Rudahl and Goldman are Jewish women, and this shared identity prepared Rudahl to take on the Goldman biography. “Ballad of an American” is her second book-length biography of a noted leftist: in 2007, she authored “ A Dangerous Woman,” a graphic biography tracing the life and loves of Russian-American anarchist Emma Goldman. Rudahl, a prominent member of the underground comix movement, has been a working cartoonist for almost 50 years. With her graphic biography of Robeson, Rudahl aims to re-introduce this early progressive champion to a new generation of activists. However, his legacy has faded since his death in 1976, leaving many millennial and Generation-Z leftists unaware of his accomplishments. A figure of the Harlem Renaissance, Robeson became famous during his lifetime for both his booming baritone voice and his outspoken leftist ideals. Featuring a foreword by Alice Wexler, A Dangerous Woman is a marvelously compelling presentation of a woman devoted to revolutionizing her age.On October 16, 2020, Rutgers University Press published “Ballad of an American,” a graphic biography of 20th-century entertainer–activist Paul Robeson by progressive cartoonist Sharon Rudahl. Sharon Rudahl's lovely, energetic illustrations bring Goldman's many facets and passions to new life her work belongs with the critically acclaimed graphic nonfiction of Alison Bechdel's Fun Home and Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis. Emma Goldman was at the forefront of the radical causes of the twentieth century, from leading hunger demonstrations during the Great Depression-"Ask for work If they do not give you work, ask for bread If they do not give you work or bread, take the bread "-to organizing a cloakmakers' strike, from lecturing on how to use birth control to fighting conscription for World War I, while her soulmate, Alexander Berkman, spent fourteen years in jail for his failed attentat against industrialist Henry Clay Frick. "You are a terrible child and will grow into a worse woman You have no respect for your elders or for authority You will surely end on the gallows as a public menace "-Emma Goldman's childhood religion teacherĪ wonderful retelling of the famous anarchist and radical icon Emma Goldman's extraordinary life, this graphic biography embodies the richness and drama of Goldman's story in a wholly original way.Ī Dangerous Woman depicts the full sweep of a life lived to the hilt in the struggle for equality and justice. The anarchist and radical hero Emma Goldman, brought to vivid life in a graphic biography by an acclaimed artist.
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