Intergenerational Transmission of Trauma in Spiegelman's Maus

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Intergenerational Transmission of Trauma in Spiegelman's Maus

Original language description

This paper applies the concept of intergenerational transmission of trauma and Marianne Hirsch's concept of postmemory to Art Spiegelman's graphic novel Maus. It distinguishes between the vicarious trauma that was passed on to the narrator-protagonist Art and mediated to him by his father Vladek, the Holocaust survivor, and Art's personal trauma caused by his mother's suicide, reflected in Spiegelman?s cartoon "Prisoner on the Hell Planet". It deals with the level of Art's identification with the victims of the Holocaust, pointing out the narrator's distance from this trauma and contrasting it with the nature of his original personal trauma, expressed in a different graphic and textual style. A significant part of the paper is devoted to analyzing thepresentation of the Nazi genocide in the form of comics. Finally the paper focuses on the connection between intergenerational transmission of trauma and the question of identity in relation to the protagonist of Maus.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

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

CEP classification

AJ - Literature, mass media, audio-visual activities

OECD FORD branch

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Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2013

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Brno Studies in English

ISSN

0524-6881

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Volume of the periodical

39

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

15

Pages from-to

227-241

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