Tahneer Oksman
Biographic Data
| ID | 814787 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tahneer Oksman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tahneer |
| FAMILY NAME | Oksman |
| SIGNATURE | OKSMAN T |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Graduate Center, CUNY |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Writing, and Reading, with Judgment
When Vauhini Vara's 2021 personal essay about her grief, "Ghosts," written in conjunction with GPT-3, was published, proponents of the technology identified it as proof of the technology's creative capacities. This article takes a close look at Vara's popular essay to dispute such claims. Further, I read Vara's work for what it exposes about the tensions between specificity and convention that emerge in human-authored autobiographical writing, pa…
The Healer's Burden
Reviewed by: The Healer's Burden: Stories and Poems of Professional Grief ed. by Melissa Fournier and Gina Pribaz Tahneer Oksman (bio) Melissa Fournier and Gina Pribaz, editors. The Healer's Burden: Stories and Poems of Professional Grief. Iowa City: University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, 2020. 180 pp. Paperback, $22.00. To whom does grief belong? This is one of the implicit questions underlying Melissa Fournier and Gina Pribaz's new edit…
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and the Fantasy of Becoming
This short, reflective essay considers various incongruous premises at the heart of the television show The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, particularly regarding protagonist Midge Maisel’s motivations and character development. It does so in the context of some 20th century touchstones of Jewish American women’s comedy, after which the show was, on some level, modeled. The essay argues that the series is best appreciated as fantasy, and that its fantasti…
"Postmemory and the "Fragments of a History We Cannot Take In
Postmemory and the "Fragments of a History We Cannot Take In" Tahneer Oksman (bio) "The embrace of history and fiction is what I was concerned with, or rather the effort to disentangle the grip of history while remaining in its palm, so to speak. Especially this particular piece of history and this particular novel" (Morrison 2019, 307). So writes Toni Morrison in "The Source of Self-Regard," an essay included in a recently published collection o…
Joyce Antler
Identity Technologies
In their introduction to Identity Technologies, editors Anna Poletti and Julie Rak describe their new anthology as an ‘experiment in interdisciplinary dialogue’ (3). Indeed, that experimental spiri
Stranger in a Strange Land
This article examines the portrayal of selfhood in the American cartoonist Vanessa Davis's graphic narrative, Make Me a Woman (2010). Characterized by multiple artistic styles and a general lack of clear-cut panel divisions, her collage-like memoir incorporates sketches alongside narrative and diary comics. The text visualizes the struggle of responding to preconceived notions of the self—especially what it means to be a secular Jewish American w…
Identity Papers
Journal Article Identity Papers: Contemporary Narratives of American Jewishness. Helene Meyers. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2011. 247 pages. $70.00 cloth; $23.95 paper. Get access Identity Papers: Contemporary Narratives of American Jewishness. Helene Meyers. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2011. 247 pages. $70.00 cloth; $23.95 paper. Tahneer Oksman Tahneer Oksman The Graduate Center, CUNY Search for other works by thi…
Graphic Women
Over the past few years, academic interest in comics has been on the rise, as indicated by the inauguration of several peer-reviewed journals focusing on graphic narratives (including, for example, the Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics and Studies in Comics), as well as the establishment of a Comics and Graphic Narratives discussion group at the Modern Language Association Convention in 2009 (founded by Hillary L. Chute). This academic attenti…
Mourning the Family Album
(2009). Mourning the Family Album. a/b: Auto/Biography Studies: Vol. 24, No. 2, pp. 235-248
Graphic Women
Over the past few years, academic interest in comics has been on the rise, as indicated by the inauguration of several peer-reviewed journals focusing on graphic narratives (including, for example, the Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics and Studies in Comics), as well as the establishment of a Comics and Graphic Narratives discussion group at the Modern Language Association Convention in 2009 (founded by Hillary L. Chute). This academic attenti…
Mourning the Family Album
(2009). Mourning the Family Album. a/b: Auto/Biography Studies: Vol. 24, No. 2, pp. 235-248
Graphic Women
Over the past few years, academic interest in comics has been on the rise, as indicated by the inauguration of several peer-reviewed journals focusing on graphic narratives (including, for example, the Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics and Studies in Comics), as well as the establishment of a Comics and Graphic Narratives discussion group at the Modern Language Association Convention in 2009 (founded by Hillary L. Chute). This academic attenti…
Identity Papers
Journal Article Identity Papers: Contemporary Narratives of American Jewishness. Helene Meyers. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2011. 247 pages. $70.00 cloth; $23.95 paper. Get access Identity Papers: Contemporary Narratives of American Jewishness. Helene Meyers. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2011. 247 pages. $70.00 cloth; $23.95 paper. Tahneer Oksman Tahneer Oksman The Graduate Center, CUNY Search for other works by thi…
Stranger in a Strange Land
This article examines the portrayal of selfhood in the American cartoonist Vanessa Davis's graphic narrative, Make Me a Woman (2010). Characterized by multiple artistic styles and a general lack of clear-cut panel divisions, her collage-like memoir incorporates sketches alongside narrative and diary comics. The text visualizes the struggle of responding to preconceived notions of the self—especially what it means to be a secular Jewish American w…
Identity Technologies
In their introduction to Identity Technologies, editors Anna Poletti and Julie Rak describe their new anthology as an ‘experiment in interdisciplinary dialogue’ (3). Indeed, that experimental spiri
Joyce Antler
"Postmemory and the "Fragments of a History We Cannot Take In
Postmemory and the "Fragments of a History We Cannot Take In" Tahneer Oksman (bio) "The embrace of history and fiction is what I was concerned with, or rather the effort to disentangle the grip of history while remaining in its palm, so to speak. Especially this particular piece of history and this particular novel" (Morrison 2019, 307). So writes Toni Morrison in "The Source of Self-Regard," an essay included in a recently published collection o…
The Healer's Burden
Reviewed by: The Healer's Burden: Stories and Poems of Professional Grief ed. by Melissa Fournier and Gina Pribaz Tahneer Oksman (bio) Melissa Fournier and Gina Pribaz, editors. The Healer's Burden: Stories and Poems of Professional Grief. Iowa City: University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, 2020. 180 pp. Paperback, $22.00. To whom does grief belong? This is one of the implicit questions underlying Melissa Fournier and Gina Pribaz's new edit…
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and the Fantasy of Becoming
This short, reflective essay considers various incongruous premises at the heart of the television show The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, particularly regarding protagonist Midge Maisel’s motivations and character development. It does so in the context of some 20th century touchstones of Jewish American women’s comedy, after which the show was, on some level, modeled. The essay argues that the series is best appreciated as fantasy, and that its fantasti…
Writing, and Reading, with Judgment
When Vauhini Vara's 2021 personal essay about her grief, "Ghosts," written in conjunction with GPT-3, was published, proponents of the technology identified it as proof of the technology's creative capacities. This article takes a close look at Vara's popular essay to dispute such claims. Further, I read Vara's work for what it exposes about the tensions between specificity and convention that emerge in human-authored autobiographical writing, pa…
Art (9 works) · Literature (6 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · History (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · History (4 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (4 works) · Jewish Identity and Society (3 works) · Media studies (3 works) · Narrative (3 works)