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I just finished Maus. On the whole it was a well worth read. The use of different animals to illustrate the different ethnic identities was pretty clever. Although, I couldn't help but notice that separating each identity in to a different species enforces some form racism. I really liked how Spiegelman brought this question up, not in the same way but talking about his characature of his father seems to enforce the stereotypes of the jewish culture: miserly, etc. I think it's important to remember that racism is culturally defined, and especially nationalism; which my old history professor chose as the main cause of the war. One part that I thought was original book, was the relationship the son had with his father, with two unuasual distinguishing aspects, both related: his mother had committed suicide, and his parents were holocaust victims. This question of "how do you live your life after you had gone through the holocaust" intrigues me. It's hard for me to imagine what I'd do so I turn the the valuable information Art Spiegalmen provides us. The insert of the comic, with the drastically different style, credulates the validity of the comic. I do believe that it was real, at least it felt real in that it felt like a piece jammed in the puzzle. Many parts of it went unexplained (at least in Maus 1 since I never read the sequel).
Posted by Rudolph Klemencic on 5/11/04; 11:41:27 PM
from the dept.
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