Maus (comics)

Maus: A Survivor's Tale is a graphic novel by Art Spiegelman that recounts his father's struggle to survive the Holocaust as a Polish Jew. The book also follows the author's troubled relationship with his father and the way the effects of war reverberate through generations of a family. In 1992 it won a Pulitzer Prize Special Award, as the Pulitzer committee could not decide whether to categorize it as fiction or biography.

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Graphic novel - Art Spiegelman - Holocaust - Polish - Jew - 1992 - Pulitzer Prize Special Award - Fiction - Biography

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Spiegelman portrays different ethnic groups as different species of animals: Jews are depicted as mice ({{ll|German}}: Maus), Germans as cats, French as frogs, Poles as pigs, Americans as dogs, Swedes as reindeer, and Gypsies as moths. The use of anthropomorphism, a familiar device from children's cartoons and comic strips, was an ironic nod to Nazi propaganda images that depicted Jews as rats and Poles as pigs. Publication in Poland was delayed because of this artistic device.http://www.forum-znak.org.pl/index-en.php?t=przeglad&id=1020

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Ethnic group - Species - Mice - Cat - Frog - Reindeer - Gypsies - Moth - Anthropomorphism - Children - Cartoon - Comic strip - Nazi

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