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Reading Art Spiegelman - Routledge Advances in Comics Studies
Smith, Philip (Loughborough University, UK)
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.
160 pages, 2 black & white tables
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | December 10, 2015 |
| ISBN13 | 9781138956766 |
| Publishers | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Pages | 160 |
| Dimensions | 152 × 229 × 20 mm · 362 g |
| Language | English |
| Series Editor | Duncan, Randy |
| Series Editor | Smith, Matthew J. |
