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Reading Art Spiegelman

Reading Art Spiegelman

Smith, Philip

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Advances in Comics Studies

General Graphic NovelsGeneral SociologyHolocaust

ISBN10: 1138956767
ISBN13: 9781138956766
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Dec 10 2015
Pages: 160
Weight: 1.25
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.20
Language: English

The central thesis of this book is that Art Spiegelman's comics all identify deeply-rooted madness in post-Enlightenment society. Spiegelman maintains, in other words, that the Holocaust was not an aberration, but an inevitable consequence of modernisation. In service of this argument, Smith offers a reading of Spiegelman's comics, with a particular focus on his three main collections: Breakdowns (1977 and 2008), Maus (1980 and 1991), and In the Shadow of No Towers (2004). He draws upon a taxonomy of terms from comic book scholarship, attempts to theorize madness (including literary portrayals of trauma), and critical works on Holocaust literature.

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