Buch, Englisch, 160 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 379 g
Buch, Englisch, 160 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 379 g
Reihe: Routledge Advances in Comics Studies
ISBN: 978-1-138-95676-6
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
The horror of the Holocaust lies not only in its brutality but in its scale and logistics; it depended upon the machinery and logic of a rational, industrialised, and empirically organised modern society. 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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- Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
- Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Deutsche Geschichte Deutsche Geschichte: Holocaust
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Introduction 1. Formal Experimentation and Emotional Breakdowns 2. Historiography and Survival in Maus 3. The Story of a Story: In the Shadow of No Towers Conclusion: Divinest Sense
