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LITERATURE MEETS HISTORY: COUNTER-DISCOURSIVE "COMIX"
1999
Anglia. Zeitschrift für englische Philologie
Art Spiegelman's graphic novels or "comix" books, Maus: A Survivor's Tale (I and II), constitute an exemplary postmodern example of the complex border-crossing of popular culture and high art, on the one hand, and autobiography, history and fictionalized narrative, on the other. Their animal allegory and self-reflexive comic book form both distance and proximate the horrific realities of the Holocaust story they tell in both visual and verbal media. While enacting postmodern challenges to the
doi:10.1515/angl.1999.117.1.4
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