Traumatic Appropriation in Maus and In The Shadow of No Towers

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dc.contributor.advisorBeaty, Bart
dc.contributor.authorNolan, Liam
dc.date.accessioned2015-11-18T18:20:08Z
dc.date.embargolift2016-02-22T07:00:00Z
dc.date.issued2015-11-18
dc.date.submitted2015en
dc.description.abstractThere are immense ethical concerns surrounding depicting another’s trauma and turning another’s trauma into a commodity for sale in the marketplace. Of these problems, competition and the denigration of the narratives of trauma sufferers are two of the most pervasive problems. Though comics are often considered low art – unfit for serious themes – through an examination of Art Spiegelman’s In the Shadow of No Towers and Maus, this thesis explores how one can utilize structural qualities of comics to create a moral depiction of trauma by embracing intertextuality and duplicating the structures of trauma. Intertextuality can allow an artist to deploy the cultural capital of certain traumatic events towards the recognition of other traumatic events.en_US
dc.identifier.citationNolan, L. (2015). Traumatic Appropriation in Maus and In The Shadow of No Towers (Master's thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca. doi:10.11575/PRISM/28520en_US
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/28520
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11023/2640
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisher.facultyGraduate Studies
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Calgaryen
dc.publisher.placeCalgaryen
dc.rightsUniversity of Calgary graduate students retain copyright ownership and moral rights for their thesis. You may use this material in any way that is permitted by the Copyright Act or through licensing that has been assigned to the document. For uses that are not allowable under copyright legislation or licensing, you are required to seek permission.
dc.subjectLiterature--Comparative
dc.subject.classificationComicsen_US
dc.subject.classificationTraumaen_US
dc.subject.classificationSpiegelmanen_US
dc.titleTraumatic Appropriation in Maus and In The Shadow of No Towers
dc.typemaster thesis
thesis.degree.disciplineEnglish
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Calgary
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Arts (MA)
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