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Smith, Philip. "Drawing Vladek, staging Shylock: Art Spiegelman’s Maus in American Holocaust discourse." Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics 10. (2019): 197–209. Added by: joachim (8/2/18, 8:09 PM) Last edited by: joachim (7/18/20, 6:27 PM) |
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| Resource type: Journal Article Language: en: English Peer reviewed DOI: 10.1080/21504857.2018.1446452 BibTeX citation key: Smith2019a Email resource to friend View all bibliographic details  |
Categories: General Keywords: "Maus", Holocaust, Intertextuality, Judaism, Literature, Shakespeare. William, Spiegelman. Art, Theatre, USA Creators: Smith Collection: Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics |
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This essay explores the parallels between the character of Vladek in Art Spiegelman’s Maus and certain stage incarnations of Shylock from Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice. Spiegelman’s Maus, I contend, invokes Shakespeare’s famous Jewish moneylender to challenge dominant American Holocaust memory. Invoking the theatrical tradition of representing Shylock as a credibly complex character, Maus specifically generates a counter-discourse to the paradigmatic representation of the Holocaust survivor as the flat character of hero-saint.
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