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A review by antlersantlers
A Dangerous Woman: The Graphic Biography of Emma Goldman by Sharon Rudahl
3.0
2.5 stars.
I didn't really like this much at all. I think Emma Goldman is FASCINATING (though I disagree with many of her beliefs), but this as a graphic novel was not great. The pages were crammed (cramped!) with text and information to the point that it took me a very long time to get through it. Or maybe it just felt like a long time because reading each page was so labor intensive. The illustrations are so marvelous, but I just can't get over how much stuff was on each page. There was so much cool information that I tracked down this documentary of her that was on American Experience. There was even so much info in the book that I caught a lil error in the documentary! Haha! Still, too much stuff on each page!
Additionally this is one in a very annoying trend of graphic biographies/non-fiction that doesn't have a bibliography. The Author's Note says that almost everything is in her autobiography [b:Living My Life|51695|Living My Life|Emma Goldman|http://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1309282997s/51695.jpg|28303], but I am sure there was more. It was certainly more deplorable in [b:Superzelda|16678351|Superzelda The Graphic Life of Zelda Fitzgerald|Tiziana Lo Porto|http://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1355905174s/16678351.jpg|22893614], which had NOTHING in terms of works used/bibliography, but if either were a general non-fiction book that would be totally unacceptable! SHOW YOUR WORK, PEOPLE.
I didn't really like this much at all. I think Emma Goldman is FASCINATING (though I disagree with many of her beliefs), but this as a graphic novel was not great. The pages were crammed (cramped!) with text and information to the point that it took me a very long time to get through it. Or maybe it just felt like a long time because reading each page was so labor intensive. The illustrations are so marvelous, but I just can't get over how much stuff was on each page. There was so much cool information that I tracked down this documentary of her that was on American Experience. There was even so much info in the book that I caught a lil error in the documentary! Haha! Still, too much stuff on each page!
Additionally this is one in a very annoying trend of graphic biographies/non-fiction that doesn't have a bibliography. The Author's Note says that almost everything is in her autobiography [b:Living My Life|51695|Living My Life|Emma Goldman|http://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1309282997s/51695.jpg|28303], but I am sure there was more. It was certainly more deplorable in [b:Superzelda|16678351|Superzelda The Graphic Life of Zelda Fitzgerald|Tiziana Lo Porto|http://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1355905174s/16678351.jpg|22893614], which had NOTHING in terms of works used/bibliography, but if either were a general non-fiction book that would be totally unacceptable! SHOW YOUR WORK, PEOPLE.