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
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.
"This edited volume consists of eight excellent essays on
anti-Semitism and the Holocaust in Europe as portrayed in comics
during the Second World War and in follow-up graphic novels still
being published in our day. All of the essays contain fine analyses
of both the art and the texts of the comics and graphic novels
under consideration. The book fills an important gap in discussion
of European, including Eastern European, comics and graphic novels,
many of which have been influenced by Art Spiegelman’s Maus."
Stephen Tabachnick, The Modern Language Review "Comic Books,
Graphic Novels and the Holocaust. Beyond Maus is an edited
collection examining lesser known, often pioneering graphic
narratives that appeared both pre- and post-Maus, mainly in Central
and Western European countries where the Holocaust has left a
lasting mark. The book’s eight essays demonstrate the richness of
the genre and the variety of ways that comic artists have engaged
with the Holocaust across time and beyond Maus. This is a much
needed and timely study of a unique art form, overlooked by
academia yet a powerful way to teach readers about the Holocaust
and represent traumatic events." Aneta Stępień, East European
Jewish Affairs "The studies in the volume perform the important
work of expanding the critical dialogue about comics and the
Holocaust [...]. As its subtitle suggests, the collection of essays
moves beyond the well-known and iconic Maus to consider
lesser-known yet just as historically impactful graphic narratives.
The original and insightful studies permit the graphic narratives
and their creators to enter ongoing and dynamic critical dialogues
about intersections between comics, the Holocaust, memory, and
individually distinct national histories." Lynn Marie Kutch, German
Studies Review "This volume offers an impressive array of examples
of comics from Poland, Italy, Holland, the Czech Republic, East
Germany, the United States, and France, including transnational
comics depicting narratives that transcend national boundaries. The
comparative framework is enlightening and allows readers to
consider the similarities and differences in comics about the
Holocaust that result not only from the aesthetics of the medium
but also from each country’s particular socio-historical context
and memory politics. This volume will certainly be of interest to
comics studies scholars, scholars of the Holocaust, and scholars of
European history." Priscilla Layne, Seminar: A Journal of Germanic
Studies "Ever since the success of Art Spiegelman’s Maus, the
graphic novel medium has been closely associated with Holocaust and
genocide representation, and various international publications and
exhibitions have highlighted and examined this connection,
particularly over the last decade. First published as a special
issue of the Journal of Modern Jewish Studies (2018), Comic Books,
Graphic Novels and the Holocaust sheds new light on this area of
study, through a series of essays covering the representation of
the Holocaust in comics and graphic novels from the war period to
the present day, across a range of national and transnational
contexts." Fransiska Louwagie, European Comic Art "The book […]
gives access to an important corpus of non-English language comics
that are possibly never going to become widely available, but whose
reading can contribute to a better understanding of how they both
reflected and assisted the consolidation of both anti-Semitic
sentiment and the belated post-war representation of the Holocaust
[…]"
Mihaela Precup, Studies in Comics
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