Reading Art Spiegelman Contributor(s): Smith, Philip (Author) |
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ISBN: 1138956767 ISBN-13: 9781138956766 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $180.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2015 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Media Studies - Comics & Graphic Novels | Literary - History | Holocaust |
Dewey: 741.597 |
LCCN: 2015034701 |
Series: Routledge Advances in Comics Studies |
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.2" W x 9.2" (1.25 lbs) 160 pages |
Themes: - Topical - Holocaust - Ethnic Orientation - Jewish |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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. |