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Maus by Art Spiegelman

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Author Biography

Name: Art Spiegelman
Birth Date: February 15, 1948
Place of Birth: Stockholm, Sweden
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: Writer, Illustrator, Cartoonist

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Biography of Art Spiegelman
3831 words, approx. 12.8 pages
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 Jews and Nazis, marks a zenith in Spiegelman's artist...
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Biography of Art Spiegelman
3709 words, approx. 12.4 pages
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 the 1970s he has produced intellectually intriguing c...


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Maus Summary
987 words, approx. 3 pages
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 during the Holocaust. The work brought respect to the comic...
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Maus Information
2,103 words, approx. 7 pages
Maus: A Survivor's Tale is a memoir by Art Spiegelman, presented as a graphic novel. It recounts the struggle of Spiegelman's father to survive the Holocaust as a Polish Jew and draws largely on his father's recollections of his experiences. The book...


News and Journals
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The New York Observer
Bruce Mau on Design, Rem and Not Getting Paid
12/16/2005: 341 words, approx. 1 pages
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 cool. Cool is conservative fear dressed in black.” Wearing black pants and a button down shirt, Mr. Mau...
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AP News
Navy plane crashes off N.C.; 3 missing
8/16/2007: 298 words, approx. 1 pages
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 active search and rescue mission," Navy spokesman Mike Maus said Thursday, about 12 hours after the twin-engine...
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AP News
Banned sect blamed for Kenya beheadings
5/23/2007: 830 words, approx. 3 pages
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 elections.Police said Wednesday they have arrested seven people and launched a manhunt to...
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Kenya cracks down on shadowy sect
6/6/2007: 477 words, approx. 2 pages
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 five this week.The sect, called the Mungiki, was inspired by the 1950s Mau...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Barry Laga
11,327 words, approx. 38 pages
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 challenges linear notions of history and celebrates the productive desires of the posthistorical bricoleur.”
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Critical Essay by Joshua L. Charlson
10,979 words, approx. 37 pages
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 and imagination.
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Critical Essay by Alison Landsberg
10,076 words, approx. 34 pages
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.
 
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Essay Grade: 94%
Effects of the Holocaust in Maus
1,562 words, approx. 5 pages
In Art Spiegelman's book, Maus, how the Holocaust leaves lasting effects on families of Holocaust survivors.
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Essay Grade: 88%
Not Left at the Gates
1,562 words, approx. 5 pages
The essay deals with the effects of the Holocaust as seen in the graphic novel, Maus by Art Spiegelman. It shows that the effects are felt even after survivors left the gates of the concentration camps.
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Essay Grade: 87%
Right or Wrong?
1,215 words, approx. 4 pages
Maus by Art Spiegelman. It's about war.
 
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