'Maus' and 'El arte de volar': Two paradigmatic representations of the concentrationary universe

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  • Carmen García Navarro Universidad de Salamanca

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https://doi.org/10.7203/qdfed.21.9335

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Comics offer valuable insights into representing historical questions in a fictional way through the conjunction of their visual and textual elements. Even though both authors (Spiegelman; Altarriba) are not direct witnesses, intergenerational transmission allows them to articulate and to think about their stories, regarding the trauma, the criminality and inhumanity of extermination camps such as Auschwitz and Saint-Cyprien. The metafictional exercise of Maus, or the appropriation of the testimonial voice by Altarriba’s narrator, are some of the narrative and graphic resources analyzed as strategies in order to resolve the problematic representation of reality, the traumatic experience and the image of the concentration camps.

 

Keywords: comic; concentration camps; memory; testimony; commitment.

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Carmen García Navarro, Universidad de Salamanca

Department of Spanish Language Universidad de Salamanca

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2016-12-06

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García Navarro, C. (2016). ’Maus’ and ’El arte de volar’: Two paradigmatic representations of the concentrationary universe. Quaderns De Filologia - Estudis Literaris, 21, 67–82. https://doi.org/10.7203/qdfed.21.9335
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Vol. 21 (2016): THE CONCENTRATIONARY UNIVERSE: WRITING TO NOT FORGET

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