Sheng-Mei Ma (essay date 1997)
SOURCE: Ma, Sheng-Mei. “Mourning with the (as a) Jew: Metaphor, Ethnicity, and the Holocaust in Art Spiegelman's Maus.” Studies in American Jewish Literature 16 (1997): 115-29.
[In the following essay, Ma discusses the significance of cultural identity, particularly Jewish identity, to the reading of Maus, noting that Spiegelman is “acutely aware that his comics reach a large audience across ethnic and national boundaries.”]
I. MOURNING WITH THE JEW OR MOURNING AS A JEW
In “Prisoner...
Source: Contemporary Literary Criticism, ©2004 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.
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