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Spiegelman Studies Part 1 of 2: Maus
- Author(s):
- Philip Smith (see profile)
- Date:
- 2015
- Group(s):
- CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century, GS Comics and Graphic Narratives, LLC Jewish American
- Subject(s):
- American literature--Jewish authors
- Item Type:
- Article
- Tag(s):
- Holocaust, Art Spiegelman, Maus, Jewish American literature
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M62P5J
- Abstract:
- Art Spiegelman is one of the most-discussed creators in Comic Book Studies. His Pulitzer-winning work Maus (1980 and 1991) was, alongside The Dark Knight Returns (1986) and Watchmen (1987), the catalyst to a sea change in the commercial and critical fortunes of the alternative comic book during the mid-1980s. It has been a landmark text in critical discourses on comics ever since. The purpose of this and its companion paper is to offer a synthesis and reinvestigation of both the existing critical literature on Spiegelman as well as, perhaps most importantly, the lacunae within that literature. The aims of these two papers, then, are two-fold: firstly, to establish where we have got to and, secondly, to suggest some directions for the future of Spiegelman scholarship. This, the first of the two papers, will be devoted to the richest vein of Spiegelman scholarship, on Maus.
- Metadata:
- xml
- Published as:
- Journal article
- Status:
- Published
- License:
- All Rights Reserved
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