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Maus now : selected writings / edited by Hillary Chute.

Chute, Hillary L., (editor.). Pullman, Philip, 1946- Behind the masks. (Added Author). Brown, Joshua, 1949- Of mice and memory. (Added Author). Tucker, Ken, 1953- Cats, mice, and history. (Added Author). Gopnik, Adam. Comics and catastrophe. (Added Author). Scheel, Kurt. Mauschwitz? Art Spielman's "A survivor's tale." (Added Author). Abusch, Dorit, 1955- "Holocaust in comics?" (Added Author). Doherty, Thomas Patrick. Art Spiegelman's Maus. (Added Author). Tabachnick, Stephen Ely. Of Maus and memory. (Added Author). Hirsch, Marianne. My travels with Maus, 1992-2020. (Added Author). Miller, Nancy K., 1941- Cartoons of the self. (Added Author).

Summary:

"Richly illustrated with images from Art Spiegelman's work, Maus Now gathers together many of contemporary culture's leading critics, authors, and academics on the radical achievement and innovation of Maus more than forty years since its first publication. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Art Spiegelman is one of our most influential contemporary artists, and it is hard to overstate his effect on postwar American culture. Maus has shaped the fields of literature, history, and art, and enlivened our collective sense of what these practices can accomplish. Maus Now: Selected Writings collects responses to the work that confirm its unique and terrain-shifting status. Here, writers such as Philip Pullman, Robert Storr, Ruth Franklin, and others approach Maus from a wide range of viewpoints and traditions, inspired by the material's complexity. The book is organized into three very loosely chronological sections: "Contexts," "Problems of Representation," and "Legacy," and offers translations of important French, Hebrew, and German essays on Maus for the first time. Maus is revelatory, and generative, in profound and long-lasting ways. With this collection, American literary scholar (and expert on comics and graphic narratives) Hillary Chute assembles the best work around the globe exploring this classic graphic biography" -- Provided by publisher.

Record details

ISBN: 9780593315774
ISBN: 0593315774
Physical Description: xxvi, 394 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York : Pantheon Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, [2022]
Copyright: ©2022

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references(pages 349-388).

Formatted Contents Note:

Maus now / Hillary Chute -- Contexts. -- Behind the masks (2003) / Philip Pullman -- Of mice and memory (1988) / Joshua Brown -- Cats, mice and history: the avant-garde of the comic strip (1985) / Ken Tucker -- Comics and catastrophe: Art Spiegelman's Maus and the history of the cartoon (1987) / Adam Gopnik -- Mauschwitz? Art Spiegelman's "A survivor's tale" (1939) / Kurt Scheel -- "The Holocaust in comics?" (1997 and 2021) / Dorit Abusch -- Art Spiegelman's Maus: graphic art and the Holocaust (1996 and 2020) / Thomas Doherty -- Of Maus and memory: the structure of Art Spiegelman's graphic novel of the Holocaust (1993) / Stephen E. Tabachnick --Problems of representation. -- My travels with Maus, 1992-2020 (1992, 1997, 2012, and 2020) / Marianne Hirsch -- Cartoons of the self: portrait of the artist as a young murderer--Art Spiegelman's Maus (1992) / Nancy K. Miller -- "We were talking Jewish": Art Spiegelman's Maus as "Holocaust" production (1994) / Michael Rothberg -- Language of survival: English as a metaphor in Spiegelman's Maus (1995) / Alan Rosen -- Holocaust laughter? (1998) / Terrence des Pres -- Of mice and mimesis: reading Spiegelman with Adorno (2003) Andreas Huyssen -- Legacy. -- Making Maus (1991) / Robert Storr -- "The shadow of a past time": history and graphic representation in Maus (2006) / Hillary Chute -- Art Spiegelman's genre-defying Holocaust work, revisited (2011) / Ruth Franklin -- Spiegelman, in nobody's land (2009) / Pierre-Alban Delannoy -- Q&A with Art Spiegelman, creator of Maus (2013) / David Samuels -- Everything depends on images: reflections on language and image in Spiegelman's Maus (2018) / Hans Kruschwitz -- Haus of Maus: Art Spiegelman's twitchy irreverence (2014) / Alisa Solomon.