Beyond MAUS: The Legacy of Holocaust Comics
Wien: Böhlau Verlag (2021), 420 pp.
Contains illustrations , index
Series: Schriften des Centrums für Jüdische Studien, 34
ISBN 978-3-205-21065-8 (print); 978-3-205-21066-5 (ebook)
"Beyond MAUS. The Legacy of Holocaust Comics collects 16 contributions that shed new light on the representation of the Holocaust. While MAUS by Art Spiegelman has changed the perspectives, other comics and series of drawings, some produced while the Holocaust happened, are often not recognised by a wider public. A plethora of works still waits to be discovered, like early caricatures and comics referring to the extermination of the Jews, graphic series by survivors or horror stories from 1950s comic books. The volume provides overviews about the depictions of Jews as animals, the representation of prisoner societies in comics as well as in depth studies about distorted traces of the Holocaust in Hergé’s Tintin and in Spirou, the Holocaust in Mangas, and Holocaust comics in Poland and Israel, recent graphic novels and the use of these comics in schools." (Publisher description)
Contributions to a Conference at the Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Graz in 2019.
Ghosts, Golems, Angels : The Medial Specificity of Comics Representing the Holocaust / Ole Frahm, 33
I.
Post-war Graphic Cycles / Kathrin Hoffmann-Curtius, 65
Israël Souviens Toi ! Early Representations of the Holocaust Between Caricature and Comic Book / Emil Gruber, 81
II.
Early Representations of Concentration Camps in Golden Age Comic Books. Graphic Narratives, American Society, and the Holocaust / Markus Streb, 103
From the Dreyfus Affair to MAUS. A Short History of the Animalization of the Representation of the Jews / Didier Pasamonik, 125
The Invisible Jews in August Froehlich’s “Nazi Death Parade” (1944). An Early American Sequential Narrative Attempt to Visualize the Final Stages of the Holocaust / Kees Ribbens, 133
III.
Collapsing Boundaries. Mangaesque Paths Beyond MAUS / Jaqueline Berndt, 169
The Portrayal of Children’s Experiences of the Holocaust in Israeli Graphic Novels and Comics / Susanne Korbel, 193
Haunted But Not Healed. The Holocaust in Recent Polish Comics / Kalina Kupczyńska, 209
IV.
Distorted Traces of the Holocaust in Hergé’s Tintin / Hans-Joachim Hahn, 239
Hidden Atrocities. The Holocaust Framed by Edmond- François Calvo and Émile Bravo / Jörn Ahrens, 261
V.
“Students like it, it’s still their genre.” A Qualitative Approach to Teacher’s Views on Holocaust Education with Comics / Georg Marschnig, 289
Graphic Novels and the Holocaust : “Just” Comics ? / Jeff McLaughlin, 305
VI.
Second Generation Comics. On the Construction of (Post-)Memory in Art Spiegelman’s MAUS and Michel Kichka’s Deuxième Génération / Nina Eckhoff-Heindl and Véronique Sina, 333
“Shot in the heart on Valentine’s day”. Monsters, Sexuality, the Holocaust and Late 1960s American Culture in Emil Ferris’s My Favorite Thing Is Monsters. Book I (2017) / Dana Mihăilescu, 353
“Inside Concentration Camps”. Social Life and Prisoner Societies in Comic Books and Graphic Novels / Dennis Bock, 381
I.
Post-war Graphic Cycles / Kathrin Hoffmann-Curtius, 65
Israël Souviens Toi ! Early Representations of the Holocaust Between Caricature and Comic Book / Emil Gruber, 81
II.
Early Representations of Concentration Camps in Golden Age Comic Books. Graphic Narratives, American Society, and the Holocaust / Markus Streb, 103
From the Dreyfus Affair to MAUS. A Short History of the Animalization of the Representation of the Jews / Didier Pasamonik, 125
The Invisible Jews in August Froehlich’s “Nazi Death Parade” (1944). An Early American Sequential Narrative Attempt to Visualize the Final Stages of the Holocaust / Kees Ribbens, 133
III.
Collapsing Boundaries. Mangaesque Paths Beyond MAUS / Jaqueline Berndt, 169
The Portrayal of Children’s Experiences of the Holocaust in Israeli Graphic Novels and Comics / Susanne Korbel, 193
Haunted But Not Healed. The Holocaust in Recent Polish Comics / Kalina Kupczyńska, 209
IV.
Distorted Traces of the Holocaust in Hergé’s Tintin / Hans-Joachim Hahn, 239
Hidden Atrocities. The Holocaust Framed by Edmond- François Calvo and Émile Bravo / Jörn Ahrens, 261
V.
“Students like it, it’s still their genre.” A Qualitative Approach to Teacher’s Views on Holocaust Education with Comics / Georg Marschnig, 289
Graphic Novels and the Holocaust : “Just” Comics ? / Jeff McLaughlin, 305
VI.
Second Generation Comics. On the Construction of (Post-)Memory in Art Spiegelman’s MAUS and Michel Kichka’s Deuxième Génération / Nina Eckhoff-Heindl and Véronique Sina, 333
“Shot in the heart on Valentine’s day”. Monsters, Sexuality, the Holocaust and Late 1960s American Culture in Emil Ferris’s My Favorite Thing Is Monsters. Book I (2017) / Dana Mihăilescu, 353
“Inside Concentration Camps”. Social Life and Prisoner Societies in Comic Books and Graphic Novels / Dennis Bock, 381
