HILLARY CHUTE
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U$ 38,43 34,45 €
u003cbu003eRichly illustrated with images from Art Spiegelmans u003ciu003eMausu003c/iu003e (the most affecting and successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust u003ciu003eThe Wall Street Journalu003c/iu003e), u003ciu003eMaus Nowu003c/iu003e includes work from twenty-one leading critics, authors, and academicsincluding Philip Pullman, Robert Storr, Ruth Franklin, and Adam Gopnikon the radical achievement and innovation of u003ciu003eMaus,u003c/iu003e more than forty years since the original publication of the first masterpiece in comic book history (u003ciu003eThe New Yorkeru003c/iu003e).u003c/bu003eu003cbru003eu003cbru003ePulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Art Spiegelman is one of our most influential contemporary artists; its hard to overstate his effect on postwar American culture. u003ciu003eMausu003c/iu003e shaped the fields of literature, history, and art, and has enlivened our collective sense of possibilities for expression. A timeless work in more ways than one, u003ciu003eMausu003c/iu003e has also often been at the center of debates, as its recent ban by the McMinn County, Tennessee, school board from the districts English language-arts curriculum demonstrates.u003cbru003e u003ciu003eMaus Now: Selected Writingu003c/iu003e collects responses to Spiegelmans monumental work that confirm its unique and terrain-shifting status. The writers approach u003ciu003eMausu003c/iu003e from a wide range of viewpoints and traditions, inspired by the materials complexity across four decades, from 1985 to 2018. The book is organized into three loosely chronological sections Contexts, Problems of Representation, and Legacyand offers for the first time translations of important French, Hebrew, and German essays on u003ciu003eMaus.u003c/iu003eu003cbru003e u003ciu003eMaus u003c/iu003eis revelatory and generative in profound and long-lasting ways. With this collection, American literary scholar Hillary Chute, an expert on comics and graphic narratives, assembles the worlds best writing on this classic work of graphic testimony.
