To Imagine the Unimaginable: The Reinvention of the Testimony Through Photographs in Maus, by Art Spiegelman

Authors

  • Carolina Sieja Bertin Universidade de São Paulo

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17851/1982-3053.13.24.3-18

Keywords:

Photography, Testimony, Maus

Abstract

Throughout the production of Maus, its author Art Spiegelman proclaims in Metamaus, that in addition to the testimony of his father, the photographs were an intrinsic base so that he could independently visualize the genocide by which his relatives have been through. In this article, we analyze the way in which Spiegelman reconstructs the Shoah, becoming active in the creation of new paradigms for the retransmission of the event, without leaving aside the historiographical bases.

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Author Biography

Carolina Sieja Bertin, Universidade de São Paulo

Doutoranda em Estudos Linguísticos e Literários do Inglês na Universidade de São Paulo.

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Published

2019-05-29

How to Cite

Bertin, C. S. (2019). To Imagine the Unimaginable: The Reinvention of the Testimony Through Photographs in Maus, by Art Spiegelman. Arquivo Maaravi: Revista Digital De Estudos Judaicos Da UFMG, 13(24), 3–18. https://doi.org/10.17851/1982-3053.13.24.3-18

Issue

Vol. 13 No. 24 (2019): Diários, correspondências, fotografias: a vida privada na cultura judaica

Section

Artigo-Dossiê

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