Reading Art Spiegelman Paperback / softback
by Philip (Loughborough University, UK) Smith
Part of the Routledge Advances in Comics Studies series
Paperback / softback
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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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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:160 pages, 2 Tables, black and white
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Inc
- Publication Date:03/01/2018
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- ISBN:9780815386476
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Out of StockMore expected soonContact us for further information
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:160 pages, 2 Tables, black and white
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Inc
- Publication Date:03/01/2018
- Category:
- ISBN:9780815386476