ENGB38H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Art Spiegelman, Postmodern Art, Extermination Camp
Document Summary
Cover nazi symbol, predatory theme, nazi story with animals. Back cover map of poland with specific cities shown. Map of polland primary extermination camps on map with mouse symbol. Extermination camps designed with prupose to murder ppl existed to simply kill them. Concentration camps forced to work and some chance of surviving. Map of back cover shows story can be told in many different ways. All the info we get from the front and back cover = paratext. Holocaust systematic persecution of jews during wwii hitler. Hitler rise to power 12 million ppl murder by nazis & 1 million were kids. Maus innovative from perspective of representing trauma, holocaust. Theodre to write poetry after is barbaric feel bad taking pleasure in something so horrible. Better to remember memory through silence than to publish work about it. Words were often misinterpreted that art, words, poetry, and cannot represented genocide accurately.
