Considering Maus: Approaches to Art Spiegelman’s “Survivor’s Tale” of the Holocaust, Deborah R. Geis, ed. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2003), x + 192 pp., 29.95
Almost twenty years have passed since the publication of the first volume of Maus, Art Spiegelman’s critically acclaimed Holocaust “comix”-memoir-biography. Academic interest in the work shows no signs of abating—why? In the introduction to her edited, interdisciplinary volume, Deborah R. Geis respo...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2005
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2005, Volume: 19, Issue: 3, Pages: 549-551 |
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| Summary: | Almost twenty years have passed since the publication of the first volume of Maus, Art Spiegelman’s critically acclaimed Holocaust “comix”-memoir-biography. Academic interest in the work shows no signs of abating—why? In the introduction to her edited, interdisciplinary volume, Deborah R. Geis responds indirectly by summarizing some of the oft-cited unique characteristics of Spiegelman’s “survivor’s tale”: the fabulistic characters, the technically unorthodox “cinematic style” (p. 2), the postmodern incorporation of the “difficulty of telling” (p. 3) a story of the Holocaust and its second-generation impact, and the book’s deceptive simplicity and visual economy. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dci054 |