![]() ![]() ![]() Furthermore, Spiegelman’s presentation method was criticized for naturalizing something unnatural, which means it was perceived as trivializing the Holocaust and by that insulting the victims (cf. According to De Angelis, Polish people demonstrated against Spiegelman’s work just after its publication and Israeli people were disturbed by the representation of Jews as fragile creatures (cf. Especially the representation of Jews as mice and Poles as pigs caused many negative critiques from Jewish and Polish people themselves. For example, cats for Germans, mice for Jews and pigs for Poles. To elaborate on this, Spiegelman chose to depict the affiliation to a religion or culture of characters by using animal make in the past and present time of the graphic novel. However, his graphic novel was also criticized for the use of animal masks for the characters. ![]() Amongst other achievements, he was honored with the Pulitzer Prize for MAUS in 1992. MAUS is an autobiographically written graphic novel by Art Spiegelman which consists of two parts, Maus I (1986) and Maus II (1992), and tells the story of the artist’s parents, Anja and Vladek, who survived the Holocaust and the reader also gets a view on the afterlife of Vladek and his relationship with his son ‚Artie‘.Īrt Spiegelman received a lot of praise and was celebrated in the press for his work (cf. The Masks in Past and Present Time in Maus Function and Effect of Cat, Mice, Pigs and other Animal MasksĢ.2. The Animal Masks in Art Spiegelman’s MausĢ.1. ![]()
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