(Re) invenção de identidades: a construção das identidades de judeus e nazistas na obra "Maus" de Art Spiegelman.

Abstract

The advent of the new Cultural history has opened up a new range of possibilities in historical currents in the search fields, and, mainly, in a multitude of objects, with the help of several new sources, which until then were not viewed by history. And with these new possibilities which we will be focusing on the comic strip MAUS (Spiegelman, 2005) and take ownership her as our source, our search object to realize how the (re) construction of the identities of Jews and Nazis in the art. In foil, the Jews are drawn as mice and Nazis winning features of cats, Poles are pigs and non-Jewish American dogs. Fetching see it from his narrative, and their designs, how identities are constantly redone from the view that the author, Art, oral reporting historical source of her father, living witness and survivor of the Nazi Holocaust in World War II. MAUS ("mouse" in german) is the story of Vladek Spiegelman, Jewish-Polish who survived the Auschwitz concentration camp, told by himself to son Art Spiegelman (2005). The book is considered a classic of contemporary comic books. It was published in two parts, the fírst in 1986 and the second in 1991, and it won the Pulitzer Prize for literature.