Considering Maus
Subtitle: approaches to Art Spiegelman's "Survivor's tale" of the Holocaust
By: edited by Deborah R. Geis.
Contributors: Geis, Deborah R., 1960-
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Tuscaloosa, Ala
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
Subjects: Spiegelman, Art; Spiegelman, Art -- Criticism and interpretation; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- In literature; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Poland -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc
Genres: Biography; Comic books, strips, etc.
Description: "In 1992, Art Spiegelman's two-volume illustrated novel Maus: A Survivor's Tale was awarded a special-category Pulitzer Prize. In it, Spiegelman tells the gripping story of his father's experiences in the Holocaust. The book portrays the trials Spiegelman's father endured as a Jewish refugee in the ghettos and concentration camps of Poland during World War II, his difficulties assimilating to American life following his immigration to New York, and the author's own troubled sense of self as he grapples with his father's history." "Ten scholars explore many aspects of the pivotal work, including Spiegelman's use of animal characters, the influence of other "comix" artists, the role of the mother and its relation to gender issues, the use of repeating images such as smoke and blood, Maus's place among Holocaust testimonials, its appropriation of cinematic technique, its use of language and styles of dialect, and the implications of the work's critical and commercial success."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-181) and index.
Table of contents: title: Underground comics and survival tales : Maus in context / David Mikics; title: The orphaned voice in art Spiegelman's Maus / Hamida Bosmajian; title: Cartoons of the self : portrait of the artist as a young murderer; title: Art Spiegelman's Maus / Nancy K. Miller; title: Necessary stains : Art Spiegelman's Maus and the bleeding of history / Michael G. Levine; title: "Happy, happy ever after" : story and history in Art Spiegelman's Maus / Arlene Fish Wilner; title: The language of survival : English as metaphor in Art Spiegelman's Maus / Alan C. Rosen; title: "We were talking Jewish" : Art Spiegelman's Maus as "Holocaust" production / Michael P. Rothberg; title: Read only memory : Maus and its marginalia on CD-ROM / John C. Anderson and Bradley Katz.; title: Katz, underground comics and survival tales : Maus in context / David Mikics; title: The orphaned voice in art : Spiegelman's Maus / Hamida Bosmajian; title: Cartoons of the self : portrait of the artist as a young murderer; title: Art Spiegelman's Maus / Nancy K. Miller; title: Necessary stains : Art Spiegelman's Maus and the bleeding of history / Michael G. Levine; title: "Happy, happy ever after" : story and history in Art Spiegelman's Maus / Arlene Fish Wilner; title: The language of survival : English as metaphor in Art Spiegelman's Maus / Alan C. Rosen; title: "We were talking Jewish" : Art Spiegelman's Maus as "Holocaust" production / Michael P. Rothberg; title: Read only memory : Maus and its marginalia on CD-ROM / John C. Anderson and Bradley.