A posmemória em Maus, de Art Spiegelman

Bibliographic Data

ID5776983
AuthorsCarolina Sieja Bertin (corresponding author)
Year2019
Publication date2019-10-07
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeTHESIS
PublisherUniversidade de São Paulo. Agência de Bibliotecas e Coleções Digitais (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.11606/t.8.2019.tde-07102019-175405
OpenAlexW2979176173
LanguagePT
References cited12

This work investigates the way in which the cultural production of post-Shoah generations reconciles the unreality of the genocide and the memories that surround it.It is from this point that we begin with the analysis of Maus -a survivor's tale (final edition in 1991), Art Spiegelman's main work through which he represents his father's life narrative as a war survivor of the Shoah.Armed with his story, as well as with a series of historical references, such as photographs, pamphlets, books and stories from other survivors, Art merges the public and private memories by using other mechanisms of representation that break the barrier of the incomprehensibility of Shoah, such as illustrations that juxtapose past and present.As we investigate other theoretical works that address the Shoah -including Spiegelman's other work called Metamaus (2011) -we see how the cultural proposals of post-genocide generations offer new insights and consequently new perspectives for the study of such traumatic situation.Our hypothesis is that the author of Maus creates a three-dimensional dynamics in the transgenerational transformation of the reality of the past by means of its symbolic resignification

Art · Art history · Genocide · Literature · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Representation · The Holocaust · Transgenerational epigenetics · Cultural, Media, and Literary Studies · Digital Storytelling and Education · History · Law · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration