Maus
Swedish-American author and artist Art Spiegelman won acclaim in the 1980s with his two-part graphic novel Maus, an account of his parents' experiences as Jews in concentration camps durin...
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Art Spiegelman's Maus stands "among the remarkable achievements in comics," according to Dale Luciano in Comics Journal. Maus, an epic parable of the Holocaust that substitutes mice and cats for human...
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Art Spiegelman, the son of Holocaust survivors, is one of the most prominent "second-generation" creators of depictions of the Holocaust and an important contemporary American sequential artist. Since...
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In the following essay, Rothberg discusses the themes of Jewish-American identity and consumer culture in Maus, asserting that Spiegelman utilizes the visual medium of the comic book to critique repre...
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In the following essay, Huyssen evaluates Maus in terms of Theodore Adorno's theory of mimesis, asserting that the work provides an alternative to the dominant modes of representing the Holocau...
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In the following essay, Laga contends that Maus offers a radical reconceptualization of how the Holocaust can be represented and comments that Spiegelman “offers us a new form of history that c...
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In the following essay, Budick explores how Maus violates certain “taboos” of Holocaust literature and how Spiegelman's subjective narrative perspective offers unique insight into...
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In the following essay, Charlson asserts that Maus successfully rejects genre categorization, putting into question the distinctions between fiction and nonfiction, history and memory, and testimony a...
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In the following essay, Staub argues that Maus examines the dilemma of adequately representing the Holocaust in ways which are meaningful to modern readers.
In some of the huts are huge glass-enclo...
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In the following essay, Doherty examines how Maus utilizes the visual medium of the comic book as a means of depicting the Holocaust and compares the work to various cinematic representations of the H...
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In the following essay, Ma discusses the significance of cultural identity, particularly Jewish identity, to the reading of Maus, noting that Spiegelman is “acutely aware that his comics reach ...
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In the following essay, Wilner observes that Maus employs a variety of ironic juxtapositions to examine the unique difficulties of representing the Holocaust, such as the escapism associated with the ...
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In the following essay, Landsberg discusses the significance of Maus and the comic book genre as a medium for representing the Holocaust from a fresh visual and emotional perspective.
Like those bi...
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In the following essay, Young explores how Maus illustrates the myriad dilemmas involved in representing the Holocaust, noting that Maus “succeeds brilliantly not just for the ways it side-shad...
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In the following essay, Lehmann examines the role of creative imagination in constructing historical representations of the Holocaust in three works of Holocaust literature—Maus, The Shawl, by ...
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In the following essay, Ewert argues that the significance of Maus as a representation of the Holocaust lies in the “visual register of the narrative” and notes that critics must “...
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Whenever a Holocaust story is heard, a certain respect for the survivors fills the air. It is almost impossible to think of the hardships that survivors and non-survivors were forced to face yea...
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Who sets the rules for what's right and what's wrong? Well whoever it is, he/she sure isn't doing a very good job of it. Apparently, each person's ideas of what's right and wrong differs, which is the...
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Whenever a Holocaust story is heard, a certain respect for the survivors fills the air. It is almost impossible to think of the hardships that survivors and non-survivors were forced to face years ag...
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Everybody knows wars are a terrible thing, but no one really knows how terrible until they live through one, and the Jewish Holocaust was no exception. One of the worse aspects people had to go face ...
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The book "Maus" is just like what I've heard and learned in the past if not I would say it is exactly the same. The author Art Spiegelman really is a good explainer and puts ...
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Nairobi (dpa) - Lawyers representing six former Kenyan rebels who
fought in a 1950s insurgency against the then British colonial
government have filed a legal claim against ...
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Last night at the New School’s Tishman Auditorium, Parsons dean Paul Goldberger conveniently recited a line from designer Bruce Mau’s Incomplete Manifesto for Growth: “Don't be c...
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A Navy surveillance aircraft crashed into the Atlantic during a training exercise, and crews searched Thursday for the three aviators who were aboard, authorities said."We're still conducting an ac...
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A banned religious sect is terrorizing villagers on the outskirts of Kenya's capital, leaving behind a trail of beheaded corpses and raising fears of a resurgence in violence ahead of this year's e...
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Hanoi (dpa) - Vietnam went on high alert nationwide Wednesday for
new bird flu cases as thousands of poultry were slaughtered in the
Mekong Delta following the first confirm...
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Hanoi (dpa) - A Vietnamese family hospitalized with suspected
avian influenza last week has tested negative for the H5N1 virus,
suspending fears of a return of human deaths ...
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Paramilitary police fired tear gas Wednesday in a Nairobi slum believed to be a hotbed for an outlawed sect accused of terrorizing Kenyans and leaving behind a string of beheaded corpses, including...
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Hundreds of people fled a Nairobi shantytown on Friday, picking their way through a maze of dusty streets as they accused police of terrorizing the innocent in their crackdown on an outlawed gang.W...
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Maus
Art Spiegelman
Art Spiegelman
Critical Essay by Michael Rothberg
Effects of the Holocaust in Maus
Former Kenyan Mau Mau rebels file formal legal claim against London
