Beyond MAUS. The Legacy of Holocaust Comics collects 16 contributions that shed new light on the representation of the Holocaust. While MAUS by Art Spiegelman has changed the perspectives, other comics and series of drawings, some produced while the Holocaust happened, are often not recognised by a wider public. A plethora of works still waits to be discovered, like early caricatures and comics referring to the extermination of the Jews, graphic series by survivors or horror stories from 1950s comic books. The volume provides overviews about the depictions of Jews as animals, the representation of prisoner societies in comics as well as in depth studies about distorted traces of the Holocaust in Hergé’s Tintin and in Spirou, the Holocaust in Mangas, and Holocaust comics in Poland and Israel, recent graphic novels and the use of these comics in schools. With contributions from different disciplines, the volume also grants new perspectives on comic scholarship.
About the author
Markus Streb is currently writing a doctoral thesis on gender in comics about the Shoah. His areas of interest also include Jewish life in rural Hessen, media reflections of anti-Semitism, or the role of women in the far-right in Germany. He is member of the Villigster Forschungsforum zu Nationalsozialismus, Rassismus und Antisemitismus, the Comics Studies Working Group in the German Society of Media Studies (Gf M), and the German Society for Comics Studies (Com For).
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