The Holocaust as vicarious past: Art Spiegelman's maus and the afterimages of history

Witnessing the Disaster: Essays on Representation and the Holocaust

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 23-45

  Young, James E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

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References (17)

1. See Saul Friedlander, Nazi Germany and the Jews, vol. 1 (New York: Harper Collins, 1997).
2. Friedlander, "Trauma, Transference, and 'Working Through,'" 41.
3. Art Spiegelman, Maus: A Survivor's Tale, 2 vols. (New York: Pantheon, 1986, 1991), 2:135. Hereafter cited parenthetically in the text by volume and page number.
4. Friedlander, "Trauma, Transference, and 'Working Through,'" 41.
5. Saul Friedlander, Memory, History, and the Extermination of the Jews of Europe (Bloomington: University of Indiana Press, 1993), 132.
6. Friedlander, "Trauma, Transference, and 'Working Through,'" 53.
7. Martin Broszat and Saul Friedlander, "A Controversy about the Historicization of National Socialism," in Reworking the Past: Hitler, and Holocaust, and the Historians' Controversy, ed. Peter Baldwin (Boston: Beacon Press, 1990), 129.
8. See Marianne Hirsch, "Family Pictures: Maus, Mourning, and Post-Memory," Discourse 15, no. 2 (1992-93): 8. For more on my own notion of "received history," see James E. Young, "Toward a Received History of the Holocaust," History and Theory 36, no. 4 (1997): 21-43.
9. Alice Yeager Kaplan, "Theweleit and Spiegelman: Of Mice and Men," in Remaking History: DIA Art Foundation Discussions in Contemporary Culture, Number 4, ed. Barbara Kruger and Phil Marian (Seattle: Bay Press, 1989), 160.
10. From Jane Kalir, "The Road to Maus," at Galerie St. Etienne, November 17, 1992, through January 9, 1993, 2.
11. Art Spiegelman, Breakdowns: From Maus to Now: An Anthology of Strips by Art Spiegelman (New York: Nostalgia Press, 1977).
12. Dori Laub, "Bearing Witness, or the Vicissitudes of Listening," in Shoshana Felman and Dori Laub, Testimony: Crises of Witnessing in Literature, Psychoanalysis, and History (New York: Routledge, 1992), 57.
13. For a full elaboration of this kind of "side-shadowed" history-telling, see Michael Andre Bernstein, Foregone Conclusions: Against Apocalyptic History (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994).
14. Adam Gopnik, "Comics and Catastrophe," New Republic, June 22, 1987, 33.
15. Robert Storr, "Making Maus," pamphlet for projects room exhibition, Museum of Modern Art, 1.
16. Jonathan Rosen, "The Trivialization of Tragedy," culturefront (Winter 1997): 85.
17. Miller, "Cartoons of the Self," 46.