Wonder Woman Tempest Tossed by Laurie Halse Anderson

Around the time that DC Comics approached me, there were several photographs in the news of child-size life preservers that had washed ashore in the Mediterranean, where families fleeing for their lives had taken their children on overcrowded boats and sometimes those boats sank and children died. In an interview with EW in November, Anderson said, “I’ve been watching for years as we’ve seen families all over the world being forced into refugee camps - in Syria, it’s just been heartbreaking. In Tempest Tossed, the dissonance comes from the creative team’s use of Arabic-speaking refugees to catalyze Diana’s story. What Israel remembers as Independence Day, Palestinians remember as the Nakba, when, in 1948, 750,000 Palestinians became refugees. During her lifetime, Lazarus “advocated voraciously for Zionism.” While there is not one single kind of Zionism, and Lazarus predates more formal assertions of it, it was and is broadly a movement in support of the establishment and development of a Jewish state in Palestine. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, / I lift my lamp beside the golden door!’” There is dissonance, however, between the reference (appearing first on the cover) and the poem (appearing near the end), which frame the text.

The title is an allusion to Emma Lazarus’s famous poem, “ The New Colossus,” of which the best known lines read, “‘Give me your tired, your poor, / Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, / The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. This coming-of-age story for the would-be Wonder Woman brings her out of Themyscira and into a world full of evil: war, famine, and the displacement of people from their homes and homelands.ĭisplacement - when people are made into refugees - is a central theme of Tempest Tossed. Wonder Woman: Tempest Tossed by writer Laurie Halse Anderson, artist Leila del Duca, colorist Kelly Fitzpatrick, and letterer Saida Temofonte is a new but not entirely different telling of the story of Diana, Princess of the Amazons, and it is ambitious.

Wonder Woman Tempest Tossed by Laurie Halse Anderson