The Health of the Nation in the Shadow of Modern Historical Trauma: Art Spiegelman?s In the Shadow of No Towers

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Result language

čeština

Original language name

The Health of the Nation in the Shadow of Modern Historical Trauma

Original language description

This paper deals with the representation of the American national trauma of 9/11 in Art Spiegelman?s comic book/graphic novel In the Shadow of No Towers. Although it points out analogies with Spiegelman?s graphic novel Maus, it sees In the Shadow of No Towers as a unique artistic work whose difference from Maus is determined by the author?s direct experience of the traumatic event. The paper discusses the most important symbols in the book, such as the recurrent image of the glowing Tower, the motif offalling men, and smoke. The paper emphasizes the strong anti-Bush tone of Spiegelman?s work, which rejects the official presentation of 9/11 as serving the purposes of political and ideological propaganda. It shows how the traumatic event of the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center is transformed into narrative memory, the result of the author?s therapeutic acting out of the historical trauma.

Czech name

The Health of the Nation in the Shadow of Modern Historical Trauma

Czech description

This paper deals with the representation of the American national trauma of 9/11 in Art Spiegelman?s comic book/graphic novel In the Shadow of No Towers. Although it points out analogies with Spiegelman?s graphic novel Maus, it sees In the Shadow of No Towers as a unique artistic work whose difference from Maus is determined by the author?s direct experience of the traumatic event. The paper discusses the most important symbols in the book, such as the recurrent image of the glowing Tower, the motif offalling men, and smoke. The paper emphasizes the strong anti-Bush tone of Spiegelman?s work, which rejects the official presentation of 9/11 as serving the purposes of political and ideological propaganda. It shows how the traumatic event of the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center is transformed into narrative memory, the result of the author?s therapeutic acting out of the historical trauma.

Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

AI - Linguistics

OECD FORD branch

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Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2011

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Ostrava Journal of English Philology

ISSN

1803-8174

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Volume of the periodical

3

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

9

Pages from-to

77-85

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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