Comic Books, Graphic Novels and the Holocaust: Beyond Maus

ISBN-13: 9780367585921 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 142 str.

Ewa Stańczyk

Opis

This book analyses the portrayals of the Holocaust in newspaper cartoons, educational pamphlets, short stories and graphic novels. Focusing on recognized and lesser known illustrators from Europe and beyond, it paints a broader picture of Holocaust comic books from the 1940s to the present.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. Picturing anti-Semitism in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands: anti-Jewish stereotyping in a racist Second World War comic strip  2. Four colour anti-fascism: postwar narratives and the obfuscation of the Holocaust in East German comics  3. De-Judaizing the Shoah in Polish comic books  4. Between memory, didacticism and the Jewish revival: the Holocaust in Italian comic books  5. The Shoah, Czech comics and Drda/Mazal’s "The Enormous Disc of the Sun"  6. "Draw yourself out of it": Miriam Katin’s graphic metamorphosis of trauma  7. Mapping transgenerational memory of the Shoah in third generation graphic narratives: on Amy Kurzweil’s Flying Couch (2016)  8. Not seeing Auschwitz: memory, generation and representations of the Holocaust in twenty-first century French comics

O autorze

Ewa Stańczyk is Lecturer in East European Studies at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. She is the author of Contact Zone Identities in the Poetry of Jerzy Harasymowicz (2012) and has recently completed her second book on the politics of memory in Poland.