Open AccessMultimodal Historiography in Spiegelman’s Maus and MetaMaus
Author(s) -
Naila Sahar
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
linguistics and literature review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2409-109X
pISSN - 2221-6510
DOI - 10.32350/llr.61.05
Subject(s) - historiography , denial , erasure , history , literature , art , psychoanalysis , psychology , computer science , archaeology , programming language
Art Spiegelman’s act of writing (and drawing) Maus is an act of breaking silences. It’s an act of reinterpreting and reconstructing history. By collecting personal memories of his father, Spiegelman recovers, commemorates and recollects the collective heritage of a trauma in a society, where denial and erasure are primary tools of historiography.