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Vol. 3 No. 1 (2017): Drawn Stories, Moving Images. Comic Books and their Screen Adaptations

Deconstructing Gilgul, Finding Identity: Captain America and the Winter Soldier in a Judaistic Perspective

DOI
https://doi.org/10.25364/05.3:2017.1.6
Submitted
May 4, 2017
Published
2017-05-04

Abstract

Captain America and Bucky, characters who appear in Marvel Comics, seem to be temporally displaced. The article scrutinizes that temporal displacement, comparing it with the Judaistic concept of gilgul – the transmigration or reincarnation of the soul – in Kabbalah and Hasidism. Furthermore, the article compares the presentation of these characters and their displacement in the original comics and the subsequent movies.